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01-11-2007 | Editorial

Creating competent and caring physicians: ensuring patients are our North Star

Authors: Peter J. Pronovost, Jose Rodriguez-Paz, Zulfiqar Mohammad

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 11/2007

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Scenario: An ICU team, composed of a critical care physician, two residents (one bleary-eyed and disheveled after being on call last night), a nurse practitioner, pharmacist, respiratory therapist and nutritionist, and an experienced charge nurse and bedside nurse, round on an elderly patient. The large and somewhat awkward team stand at the door to the patient's room as they thoroughly review his history, physical exam and laboratory data, summarize relevant literature, and discuss evidence-based therapies. The plan is state of the art. The patient, though intubated, is awake and alert and holding hands with his wife during the team visit. Both attempt to listen attentively to the ICU team's technically excellent discussion but are unable to comprehend. The ICU team walk away, feeling deservedly proud of their technical acumen, and totally unaware of their communication failure. …

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Title: Creating competent and caring physicians: ensuring patients are our North Star
Authors: Peter J. Pronovost
Jose Rodriguez-Paz
Zulfiqar Mohammad
Publication date: 01-11-2007
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 11/2007
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-007-0800-2

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