As I look back on todays intraction with patients, two basic questions emerge as "foundation" elements in constructing and educating about a management plan which I call a map.
1 What do I have and what is going to happen to me?
2 What can I do to help myself?
Over the next few weeks I will build a map and navigate through the options to illustrate the basic information needed to understand and deal with their cancer.
Each disease has unique elements as add-ons to this process and later I will be using video on U-TUBE or imbedded in this blog to illustrate. The patient ends our first meeting with a few pages in which are sketched out their disease facts and management plan covering:
1 What do I have?
2 Where is it?
3 What does this mean to my life?
4 What are my treatment options?
5 What can I do to help myself?
We will discuss each element as build a map for different cancer using my daily patient consultations as examples.
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