After grandmother’s MI, doctor vows to communicate better with patients, families
Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu, MD, an intern at Cambridge Hospital in Massachusetts, writes in STAT about how her approach to medicine changed after her grandmother suffered an MI and had blood clots in both of her lungs.
Okwerekwu mentions how she had difficulty getting updates on her grandmother’s condition and admits that she could do a better job keeping families informed about their relatives’ progress.
“While the grind of medicine can make new doctors feel the need to operate like a machine, I’m taking a vow now: I’m promising my future patients that I’ll always try to take a few minutes to make myself as a doctor more visible,” she writes.
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.