{"id":13628,"date":"2012-11-08T07:29:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T12:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=13628"},"modified":"2012-11-08T07:30:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T12:30:25","slug":"a-wide-open-brainstorm-lets-list-clinicians-skills-beyond-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2012\/11\/a-wide-open-brainstorm-lets-list-clinicians-skills-beyond-diagnosis.html","title":{"rendered":"A wide-open brainstorm: let’s list clinicians’ skills, beyond diagnosing"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a conversation with a friend last week I had a hare-brained thought – not rare, as friends know, but this one was thought-provoking. So, patients and providers and everyone else, let’s talk about this:<\/p>\n

If diagnosis magically became automated – if some super-test could suddenly identify exactly what your condition is – what are the other skills that would keep clinicians employed?<\/p>\n

I know it’s a long list because I’ve spent plenty of hours with providers, I love ’em, and hardly EVER has it been for one of them to say “Dude, you’ve got X.”<\/p>\n

So, patients: what skills do you appreciate, or do you wish you had more of? \u00a0And providers – can you help by listing the things you do?<\/p>\n

For this exercise I don’t mean bureaucracy – filling out forms etc. I mean the stuff you were trained to do in medical school.<\/p>\n

I’ll start with a few:<\/p>\n