American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
Encouragement Construed Anew
Words are perishable goods. With time they lose color and flavor, either rot away or dry into small hard things. [...]
Openness Towards Patients
Clinician openness towards patients is a multivalent concept with various meanings. From my work with psychiatry residents and other mental [...]
Explore and Define Your Clinical Role
I posit that the more clearly you define your clinical roles—and maintain flexibility around them to address individual patients’ needs [...]
Richer View of Mood
Mood is central to our way of engaging with the world and with ourselves. Often in psychiatry we think of [...]
Cycles of Communication
Below I go on at length about an imagined scenario in a restaurant. Directly, it has nothing to do with [...]
Clinician’s Listening
In an earlier post this summer I wrote that the words ‘question’ and ‘quest’ derive from the Latin word ‘quarere,’ [...]