This book assembles many of the foremost writers and clinicians in the field of team-based primary care to share their own relational reflections. It features narratives from fields such as integrated behavioral health, integrated primary care, primary care behavioral health, medical family therapy, health psychology, primary care psychology, and clinical social work. The key focus of the chapters are the relationships that are formed during primary care delivery. The book is organized into six core chapters: Family of Origin, Teachers and Mentors, Our Patients and Ourselves, Colleagues and Collaborators, Clinician as Patient, and Death and Loss. Each chapter contains a variety of styles and formats of narrative medicine, including personal reflections, story-telling, and poetry.
Connections in the Clinic will be of interest to a wide audience of clinicians and educators dedicated to a reflective or story-telling approach to healing.
Author(s): Randall Reitz, Laura E. Sudano, Mark P. Knudson
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 324
City: Cham
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Artist Bios
1 Family of Origin
Aunt Peg Colleen T. Fogarty
Different Fathers. Different Sons. John G. Spangler
Donuts in the Cemetery Alexandra Schmidt Hulst
Family-of-Origin: Things Aren’t Always What They Seem Julia Sager
Where’s Taffy? Deborah Taylor
The Resilience of a Child Michelle K. Keating
My Father’s Death and My Own Paul D. Simmons
Real Doctor Laurie C. Ivey
The Cigarette Karen Wyatt
Holding Hands Pamela Webber
My Fathers, My Family Randall Reitz
Reflection on Family of Origin: Grow Up and Leaf Out Juli Larsen
2 Teachers and Mentors
Wisdom from Mentors Colleen T. Fogarty
We Believe in Us Cameron Froude
In Celebration in Memorium Jeffrey M. Ring
Sugar-Coated Bitter Pills Ajantha Jayabarathan
“I’m Not Sure How to Tell You This…” David B. Seaburn
Beyond Functional Gait John Spangler
Knee Touch Moments Andrew S. Valeras
Mentoring Connections: Helping Trainees Give the Best of Themselves Kathryn Fraser and Claudia Allen
Strong Mentors: May We Know Them. May We Be Them Laura Sudano and Florencia Lebensohn-Chialvo
An Unlikely Path to Meaning and Mentorship Michael M. Talamantes and John Scheid
Reflection on Teachers and Mentors: A Parable Juli Larsen
3 Our Patients and Ourselves
The Things They Gave Me Colleen T. Fogarty
What Do You Know? Start There Amy L. Davis and Lucy Graham
The Indignity of Dying Alice Yuxi Lu
Leading by Example: A Story About a Woman with Parkinson’s Disease Jennifer Hodgson
The Complaint Mark P. Knudson
King’s Story Jennifer L. Ayres
The Pain Beyond the Pain Kathryn Warren Hart
Practicing Kindness: One Incrementalist’s Approach Justin H. McCarthy
The Real Reason the Red Sox Won the World Series Arnold Goldberg
Reflection on Our Patients: Comfort and Growth Juli Larsen
4 Colleagues and Collaborators
Her Reality Colleen T. Fogarty
Collaborative Partnerships and the Power of Connection Amy Odom and Amy Romain
Adapting to Culture Change: Lessons from an Immigrant Child’s Experience Glenda Mutinda
Reflections on a Personal and Professional Partnership Michael Olson and A. Catalina Triana
Physician Turns Patient Mary Talen
Thriving Alan Lorenz and Lisa Black
I Am Lucky to Have Her Christine Runyan
The Kindness of Others David Conway
Music and Stories Sarah Gerrish
Unsiloing the Mystery Angela L. Lamson
Introversion in Team-Based Care Jackie Williams-Reade
Reflection on Colleagues and Collaborators: Collaborative Curiosity Juli Larsen
5 Clinician as Patient
Advice Colleen T. Fogarty
The Medicine Box Aimee Burke Valeras
Stuck Kathryn Hart
Embracing Our Origin Stories R. L. Hughes
There Is More to Life than Work Tai J. Mendenhall
Rationalizing the Problem
A Wake-Up Call
Responding to the Problem
Responding to the Problem
Caught in a Culture of Shame Samantha Pelican Monson
A Terrifying and Altering Reversal Jamie E. Banker
An MFT’s Journey Through Infertility, Motherhood, and Postpartum Depression and Anxiety Tania Riosvelasco
Into the Darkness Cormac O’Donovan
Taking a Knee Larry Mauksch
Reflection on Clinician as Patient: Becoming Whole Juli Larsen
6 Death and Loss
Endings Colleen T. Fogarty
Professional Growth Through Personal Suffering Sabrina Mitchell
Walking with Grief Keith Scott Dickerson
The White Rock in the Desert Sally Stratford
Daughter or Doctor? The Exquisitely Unique Pain of Watching a Parent Die Deborah Edberg
A Cosmic Perspective on Death Paul D. Simmons
Can We Call This a Death? Stephen W.B. Mitchell
Unimaginable Loss Julia L. Mayer
What Do You Need Right Now? Karlynn Sievers
Caring for Our Loved Ones Randall Reitz
Reflection on Death and Loss: Music of Life Juli Larsen
