Caring for Challenging Patients and Families: Introduction
Channel: NUS CBmE
Date: 27/03/2024

We're back with the next set of videos in our CENTRES series of modules in Clinical Ethics beyond more commonly debated themes after a short break! Dr Anita Lim, Senior Consultant Rheumatologist at Gleneagles Medical Centre and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics speaks about 'Caring for Challenging Patients and Families'. 

In the first video from a set of 4, Dr Lim provides an overview of how interacting and caring for some patients and/or their families can be challenging, often termed 'difficult'. Healthcare professionals face significant and complex ethical issues when engaging with such patients and families, even to the extent of having to terminate the relationship between the patient and the professional. But every patient has different stories and contexts that must be considered.

_Link to reading_ : Charon, R. (2006) Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-05640-000

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