10 Minutes to Better Patient Communication
This podcast gives health professionals tools and information to improve patient communication and education. Today, with your next patient or client. I take a communication or education issue that professionals have raised, dig into it with some research, then give you a strategy you can use in your practice right away. And I do it all in about 10 minutes. Complete show transcripts, archive & notes at healthcommunicationpartners.com
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 203
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
“Unequal Treatment” turns 20: How does the abstract sound today?
It’s the 20th anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’sUnequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. In honor of thislandmark report, we’re spending some time with the …
00:10:13 |
Fri 13 May 2022
Dr. Saria Saccocio on belonging and interprofessional communication
Family physician and physician leader Dr. Saria Saccocio has found connections between communication and people’s sense of belonging in an organization. Belonging is one of the traits she’s noticed a…
00:10:07 |
Fri 29 Apr 2022
A hidden way health literacy can be an obstacle to better health outcomes
There’s been a trend in some health literacy papers, presentations and conversations I’ve seen lately. I’ve noticed one way health literacy can become an obstacle to better health outcomes–and it mig…
00:12:05 |
Fri 15 Apr 2022
This podcast series will now be hosted by my cat
If communicating across difference is important to you, we have an exciting announcement: My cat is the new host of this show! If communicating across cultural and social difference is important to y…
00:07:14 |
Fri 01 Apr 2022
Making sense of what we read about health equity
Each day, it seems, we see more new and important publications dealing with health equity. How do you make sense of the range and variation in the way health equity is written about? A recent JAMA ar…
00:11:07 |
Fri 18 Mar 2022
The nature of health communication is social
Thinking of health communication as a transfer of information is certainly popular. In this episode, I’ll ask you to take a step back from that, and be willing to think differently about the nature o…
00:10:20 |
Fri 04 Mar 2022
A new way to say the same thing
When it comes to educating, one size does not fit all people. In this episode, you’ll learn 10 different ways you can express a complex idea, so you can have different approaches for different patien…
00:12:40 |
Fri 18 Feb 2022
Health communication’s messy, confusing problems
This has been one of the most challenging episodes I’ve ever done. Partly because we’re nearing our third year in the pandemic, and that itself is exhausting. I’m sorry I sounded exhausted on the las…
00:11:32 |
Fri 04 Feb 2022
14 reflective practice prompts about health equity
What does health equity mean to you in your professional and personal lives? In this episode, you’ll learn 14 ways to help you find out. Health equity is still on people’s minds, and I am here for it…
00:10:11 |
Fri 21 Jan 2022
Communication must be part of any DEI strategy
In and beyond healthcare, American workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers–and this trend shows little signs of slowing. Employers who want to attract and retain talent are talking up their…
00:11:20 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
Toward more equitable interprofessional communication
Strong and equitable interprofessional communication is crucial. We’re trying to collaborate. We’re needing to communicate. We’re having to coordinate within incredibly complex, overlapping systems, …
00:11:12 |
Fri 24 Dec 2021
Communicating with employees about Omicron
In this episode, you’ll learn 4 strategies to help you communicate with your employees about the omicron variant, despite widespread “pandemic fatigue.” Here we go again! Omicron is here. If you’re c…
00:10:02 |
Fri 10 Dec 2021
Support your professional growth (and this series)!
Learn two ways you can enhance your knowledge about patient education and communication, while supporting this podcast series. You listen to this show, so you already know that communication is centr…
00:09:32 |
Fri 26 Nov 2021
Working toward health equity? 5 reasons to take a break
Everyone is dealing with exhaustion. So in this episode, I share 5 good reasons you can do one non-strenuous thing to promote health equity: pause. I’ve just been working with a great client in the h…
00:09:22 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
How does health literacy show up in real life?
It’s still October, so we’re still celebrating Health Literacy Month! In this episode, you’ll learn about one potential barrier to health literacy work that comes from within the health literacy fiel…
00:10:48 |
Fri 29 Oct 2021
Busting some literacy myths: literacy = reading
It’s our 4th anniversary and we’re kicking off a new feature! Our first installment of “Busting some literacy myths” takes a look at the long-lived notion that literacy = reading. Learn one way this …
00:10:38 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Asking hard questions about health equity research
What does it mean to do health equity research? This episode look at a recent STAT news article and asks some hard questions about health equity research. Many of you who listen to this show are inv…
00:10:09 |
Fri 01 Oct 2021
Collaborating? Here’s 4 hints to help things go smoothly
It seems we all know that if you want to get work done on big problems, it means collaborating. But collaboration itself takes some work. In this episode I share 4 hints I’ve given my clients about s…
00:11:01 |
Fri 17 Sep 2021
2 things you might not have been taught about patient education
You already have knowledge and experience about patient education. But this episode is about a few things you’ve might not have been taught–that can help you improve your patient education. When it c…
00:10:49 |
Fri 03 Sep 2021
3 ways employers can improve their RTO communication
If you’re communicating with employees about return-to-office, this episode shares three quick steps you can take to improve how you communicate about health topics. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT I’ve been watc…
00:10:34 |
Fri 20 Aug 2021
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