{"id":43060,"date":"2018-09-18T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T11:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=43060"},"modified":"2018-09-26T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T09:03:57","slug":"maria-kristiansen-difference-kind-compassionate-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2018\/09\/18\/maria-kristiansen-difference-kind-compassionate-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Kristiansen: The difference that kind and compassionate care makes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctors&#8217; acts of kindness and compassionate care shaped my experience of bereavement, says\u00a0Maria Kristiansen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-43062 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/09\/maria_kristiansen.png\" alt=\"Maria Kristiansen\" width=\"179\" height=\"164\" \/>Many patients will have stories of\u00a0seemingly small acts of kindness that unfolded in clinical\u00a0encounters, and the effect these had on them and their relatives. Losing sight of this is easy in increasingly complex, fragmented, and hurried healthcare systems,<sup>1-6<\/sup>\u00a0but it\u2019s vital that healthcare professionals keep it at the heart of how they practise. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve spent the past 10 years researching healthcare encounters, which has confirmed what firsthand experience had already taught me about the difference compassionate care makes. I found out just how much being treated with empathy and understanding helped\u2014not only as those moments played out, but in the time afterwards as I processed what had happened to me. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My firstborn child was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. During the seven months he lived, I met incredibly caring doctors. But I also encountered hurried and disengaged doctors who appeared unable to truly see the patient\u2014my son\u2014and myself as we were searching for first a diagnosis, then treatment, and finally confirmation of what we had long suspected: that my son did not have long to live. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The compassionate doctors spent nights searching for any insight that they could provide me with. They supported me when I had to decide whether my son should have major surgeries that could be fatal, but which would considerably shorten his lifespan if not performed. They listened to my incoherent attempts to make sense of the upcoming death of an infant and encouraged me to find ways to maintain some normality, doing what parents would usually do but in a much shorter time period. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We celebrated small victories that my son\u2019s diagnosis could have made impossible\u2014like the first smile or a coordinated hand movement. Furthermore, they ensured that there would be no unnecessary tests or new staff introduced into our lives at the end (a process that required actively breaking hospital administrative rules), and they supported me in caring for him at home until the very last hours of his life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After his death, they stood by my side when I later met with all of the clinicians who had been involved in our trajectory to review the care my son received. And the person who I still think of as \u201cmy doctor\u201d even took the time to write a letter months after my son had passed away, sharing his reflections on our talks on life, death, and loss. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There were many more gestures of kindness. It was the use of a name instead of simply writing \u201cpatient\u201d in the patient files. It was the ophthalmologist telling me that my son \u201chas beautiful almond-shaped eyes\u201d before even raising the likely blindness. All these seemingly small deeds make you feel seen, heard, and acknowledged as a human being. In my case, they also made me confident that they were seeing my son and not just a body with flaws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In retrospect, these moments of kind and compassionate care shaped my experience of my son&#8217;s illness and bereavement, thereby making it more bearable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In my research, I continue to witness the struggle that patients, relatives, and often also clinicians have in processing encounters where suffering, loss, but also immense resilience are at play. I\u2019d argue that unhurried, compassionate care helps us all (doctors included) to make sense of these experiences and to deal with them, even long after the clinical encounters have ended. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Empathetic care can support patients\u2019 and relatives\u2019 attempts to understand and cope with the inexplicable\u2014be it the death of a child, the diagnosis of an illness, or one of the many other experiences that bring us into contact with healthcare systems. To value and highlight this, we need to grasp any opportunity\u2014personally and professionally\u2014to reflect upon the humanity of clinicians, the\u00a0difference\u00a0it makes, and what could be done to enhance this approach to care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Maria Kristiansen<\/strong> is associate professor and research group leader at the Department of Public Health &amp; Center for Healthy Aging, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She performs interdisciplinary and multi-method health services research into citizen-centric healthcare provision, with a particular focus on aging and migration.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Competing interests: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">None to declare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[1]\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Montori V, Kunneman M, Brito J. Shared Decision Making and Improving Health Care: The Answer Is Not In. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JAMA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 2017;318(7):617-618.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[2]\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Institute of Medicine. <em>Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century<\/em>. Washington (DC):National Academies Press;2001.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[3]\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barry M, Edgman-Levitan S. Shared Decision Making \u2014 The Pinnacle of Patient-Centered Care. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The New England Journal of Medicine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 2012;366:780-781.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[4]\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rashid A. Choosing Together: encouraging person centred care and shared decision making. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BMJ<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 2015;350:h2935.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[5]\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sepucha K, Simmons L, Barry M, Edgman-Levitan S, Licurse A, Chaguturu S. Ten Years, Forty Decision Aids, And Thousands Of Patient Uses: Shared Decision Making At Massachusetts General Hospital. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Health Aff (Millwood)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 2016;35(4):630-636.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[6]\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Montori V. <em>Why we revolt: A patient revolution for careful and kind care<\/em>. 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