Wouldn’t our days at work be easier and more fun if we only saw perfect patients! I wonder what these special people would be like? Would we realise straight away or would we need some time to spot them?
They would come along wanting to see us and wanting something. What would it be? Maybe they had already made a start? I bet they would want to tell us what they had been working on. Perhaps these people would have lots of ideas of how they could make things better and be eager to take matters into their own hands? They would probably think of ways forward that we could never come up with. What would we notice first, their enthusiasm, humour or something else?
How would these perfect patients affect us? Would life be the same for us? For me, I think I would look forward to meeting my patients more, I would smile more, be more likely to share a joke and…
Maybe we would be reminded of why we do this work and reminded of what it is like to be at our best?
What if your next patient was already perfect?
Taking a Solution Focused approach to health improvement allows us to see every patient is perfect!
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