Ep 94: Rheumy Rounds Rewind: Improving Doctor and Patient Communication During Office Visits

This is an AiArthritis Voices 360 REWIND, where we are bringing back the first RheumyRound episode from 2020 where we opened the conversation on improving doctor office visits! Also note - you will hear the acronym IFAA, which we used prior to using AiArthritis.

 

Join us as our co-hosts, Tiffany and Kelly, and guests, Dr. Kim and Jerik Leung, explore the important dynamic between patients and doctors in healthcare communication. Through insightful dialogue and shared experiences from both the patient and physician perspective, we uncover strategies to enhance mutual understanding, empowering patients to articulate their needs and doctors to listen attentively. Together, we champion the importance of empathy and effective communication in achieving accurate diagnoses and personalized treatment plans for those navigating AiArthritis diseases.

Episode Highlights: 

• Do patients and rheumatologists' goals and expectations during an office visit align? 
• The significance of effective patient-doctor communication in managing AiArthritis diseases
• Strategies for patients to articulate their concerns and needs during office visits
• Techniques for doctors to actively listen and engage with patients to improve diagnostic accuracy
• Shared experiences and insights from both patients and doctors on navigating communication challenges
• How doctors can integrate social determinants of a patient's health in the clinical setting 

• Related Episodes:

• RheumyRounds: PART ONE The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - Improving Office Visit Communication: https://www.aiarthritis.org/talkshow-ep80
• RheumyRounds: PART TWO The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly - Improving Office Visit Communication : https://www.aiarthritis.org/talkshow-ep81

 

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Meet Our Host:

 

• Tiffany is the CEO at AiArthritis (International Foundation for Autoimmune & Autoinflammatory Arthritis) and uses her professional expertise in mind-mapping and problem solving to help others, like her, who live with AiArthritis diseases work in unison to identify and solve unresolved community issues.

 

Connect with Tiffany:

• Facebook: @tiffanyAiArthritis
• Twitter: @TiffWRobertson
• LinkedIn: @TiffanyWestrichRobertson

 

• Kelly Conway is a speech-language pathologist, author/blogger, and a patient advocate.  She has been living with autoimmune arthritis since age 14 but wasn’t formally diagnosed until age 32. That diagnosis has changed more than 5 times over the past 18 years. Through social media, she connected with fellow patients and cofounded the International Foundation for Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory arthritis. Kelly believes in the power of the patient voice and sharing our stories to raise awareness, education, and advocacy.

 

Connect with Kelly:

Blog: www.asmyjointsturn.com.

 

 

Meet our Guests: 

 

• Dr. Kim is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Pathology & Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine. He also founded and directs the Washington University Lupus Clinic. Dr. Kim’s research group is focused on addressing the unmet needs of human systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), including understanding and leveraging the biomarker potential of complement activation products, testing novel noninvasive imaging platforms such as photo acoustics to detect lupus nephritis, understanding the relationship between sleep quality and lupus activity, and restoring eroded social support in patients with SLE.

 

Connect with Dr. Al Kim

Instagram: @washulupusclinic

Twitter : @AlHKim

 

• Jerik Leung doctoral student and Woodruff Fellow in the Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences department at Emory University. His current research interests involve characterizing pathways linking structural social determinant