Comments on: Seek first to understand http://www.medrants.com/archives/3267 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: AnnR http://www.medrants.com/archives/3267/comment-page-1#comment-492226 AnnR Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:39:34 +0000 http://medrants.com/index.php/archives/3267#comment-492226 I thought that article was interesting. I've left appointments wondering what meaning there was for me in something the Doctor told me. Now I know that searching for some meaning is a waste of time because there wasn't any! They were wasting some of my 7 minutes running off about themselves! I think it gives us patients free-rein to forget being tactful and polite and steer the conversation back to whatever it was we came in for. I can't blame them, I waste all kinds of time at work myself. I thought that article was interesting. I’ve left appointments wondering what meaning there was for me in something the Doctor told me. Now I know that searching for some meaning is a waste of time because there wasn’t any! They were wasting some of my 7 minutes running off about themselves!

I think it gives us patients free-rein to forget being tactful and polite and steer the conversation back to whatever it was we came in for.

I can’t blame them, I waste all kinds of time at work myself.

]]> By: tina http://www.medrants.com/archives/3267/comment-page-1#comment-492111 tina Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:31:14 +0000 http://medrants.com/index.php/archives/3267#comment-492111 The last time I went into my internist we spent thirty minutes talking about his graduate research in sepsis and I told him how my company's technology was being applied in sepsis reseach. Notice what I just did. You said "apple" and I said"I have apples. lots of red ones. once I had an apple tree... blah blah blah....." This is what highly extroverted people do. We are so busy talking we don't listen. While you talk we are thinking of what to say next. More importantly we relate what we hear back to what we know and then we share that. Introverts are better at constructive listening and then analysis. My ENTP docs also are argumentative at times and are so busy talking they can't listen-in addition to being rushed from overbooking. My INTP docs have ended up being the best so far. They think more slowly, analytically and even if they think you are wrong they don't tell you as they recognize expending the effort to communicate that for an intorvert is pointless. The last time I went into my internist we spent thirty minutes talking about his graduate research in sepsis and I told him how my company’s technology was being applied in sepsis reseach.

Notice what I just did. You said “apple” and I said”I have apples. lots of red ones. once I had an apple tree… blah blah blah…..”

This is what highly extroverted people do. We are so busy talking we don’t listen. While you talk we are thinking of what to say next. More importantly we relate what we hear back to what we know and then we share that. Introverts are better at constructive listening and then analysis.

My ENTP docs also are argumentative at times and are so busy talking they can’t listen-in addition to being rushed from overbooking.

My INTP docs have ended up being the best so far. They think more slowly, analytically and even if they think you are wrong they don’t tell you as they recognize expending the effort to communicate that for an intorvert is pointless.

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