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Helping Patients Find Their Inner Strengths

William B. Shore, MD

Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(8):805-806.

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THIS PATIENT will never change—she is impossible! Residents shouldn't be assigned these kinds of patients." This was my introduction to Ms T., who had been followed up at the Family Health Center by succeeding residents for several years when she was transferred to me, about 10 years ago, as a faculty member who could work with "difficult patients." She was a 45-year-old, longterm welfare mother with multiple medical problems that included hypertension, congenital glaucoma with blindness in one eye, and chronic depression. Ms T. was the single parent of five children, several of whom had been removed by social services at various times during their childhood. All of her children, teenagers and young adults, were using drugs. At the time of her initial visit, Ms T. also was the primary caretaker for three young male grandchildren.

On the first visit (and many subsequent visits over the years), Ms T. avoided . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]


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Department of Family and Community Medicine University of California, San Francisco






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