Get Anyone To Go With You To The Hospital

I’m going to share with you a very powerful technique to convince just about anyone to go with you to the hospital, and I’m going to ask a favor of you. Please only use this technique in the patient’s best interest. This isn’t a technique to drag out when your service pressures you to increase transports or you’re not in the mood to call in for a proper refusal. This is a technique for when you really honestly believe that the patient needs to go, but they refuse.   Steve It’s an interesting contradiction in prehospital medicine. The people who don’t really need an ambulance insist on transport and the really sick folks refuse to go. Sometimes the people we could really help dig in their heals and just refuse to go. It’s frustrating. It can be maddening. And occasionally it means that we have to pull out our paper work and sign a potentially really sick patient out against medical advice. (AMA) In these moments we implore the patient to reconsider, hand over the paperwork for signing and then we say something about calling us back if things change. Now let me give you one more technique to try before you pack up and walk away. This is a simple, three-part technique.  Contents Step OneStep TwoStep ThreeStep One Establish a rapport with the patient. Hopefully you’ve been working on this from your first contact. Fair warning, don’t try to skip over this step. If you haven’t established a rapport wi...
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