What’s the Point of it All?!

 November 5, 2022

What’s THE POINT?!  It seems straightforward and blunt but that’s the question that I think when I am interacting with my patients. What does the patient wish to accomplish under my care? What are the goals for that particular doctor-patient interaction and what are the patient’s larger goals? How is the pain in the back, or neck, or knee, of head affecting the patient’s chances of reaching her/her goals? The whole point of what I do is to somehow formulate a plan and execute said plan with the patient’s feedback throughout the process. The plan is based on so many factors but at the foundation of that plan is an understanding of what we are trying to accomplish. 

Taking pain from being an all-controlling force and shifting it to being a simple nuisance or non-existent is the ultimate win. But that is not always possible, nor is it always needed. If the knee pain is interfering with being able to walk more than 1 block to get the mail, we may be able to reduce the pain enough so that the patient can walk 23 blocks at a time. If a patient is clear about the goals, we have a much better chance of accomplishing those goals. So when I say “what’s the point” you now know how important it is that we get to the point…

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