Anatomy of clinical consultation. Pain in a patient with metastasized prostate cancer. I can help when you ask me the right questions

Zbigniew Zylicz

Vol 10, No 2 (2011)

Case reports

Published online: 2011-07-01

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Anatomy of clinical consultation. Pain in a patient with metastasized prostate cancer. I can help when you ask me the right questions

Zbigniew Zylicz

Advances in Palliative Medicine 2011;10(2):79-82.

Vol 10, No 2 (2011)

Case reports

Published online: 2011-07-01

Abstract

We are all asked for consultations to see a complex patient or to answer the telephone call and think about the patient without seeing him and without touching him. Although this type of consultation is much cheaper, faster and sometimes effective. There is a danger that we hear only a part of the story, or a story coloured in such a way that it will push the decision in one direction, intended by a doctor or nurse who requested it. In this article I describe a consultation “by a telephone”. I go in de depths of the request and discuss with the doctor who asked me in consultation all pros and cons. I come to conclusion that we should teach young doctors how to request consultation, which questions to ask without suggesting the answers.
Adv. Pall. Med. 2011; 10, 2: 79–82

Abstract

We are all asked for consultations to see a complex patient or to answer the telephone call and think about the patient without seeing him and without touching him. Although this type of consultation is much cheaper, faster and sometimes effective. There is a danger that we hear only a part of the story, or a story coloured in such a way that it will push the decision in one direction, intended by a doctor or nurse who requested it. In this article I describe a consultation “by a telephone”. I go in de depths of the request and discuss with the doctor who asked me in consultation all pros and cons. I come to conclusion that we should teach young doctors how to request consultation, which questions to ask without suggesting the answers.
Adv. Pall. Med. 2011; 10, 2: 79–82

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consultation; cancer pain; pain in cancer; opioid switching; morphine; fentanyl

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Anatomy of clinical consultation. Pain in a patient with metastasized prostate cancer. I can help when you ask me the right questions

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Advances in Palliative Medicine

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Vol 10, No 2 (2011)

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79-82

Published online

2011-07-01

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Advances in Palliative Medicine 2011;10(2):79-82.

Keywords

consultation
cancer pain
pain in cancer
opioid switching
morphine
fentanyl

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Zbigniew Zylicz