Advice From a Person/Patient’s Family Member
When asked the question, “In your experience, what traits or characteristics describe a health care provider you perceived really focused on developing a relationship/partnership with you (patient, family) as the recipient of health care services,” a family member with lived experience shared the following excellent advice. (Click on each line below to read further details):
“It is crucial that health care professionals recognize that patients and their families are the most important members of their health care teams. I think that as healthcare professionals. Sometimes we forget that we have privilege, sometimes we forget that we’re in positions of power, and we might be speaking to patients about therapeutic interventions that just do not make sense to their lived realities, therapeutic interventions that are out of touch. To actually foster a therapeutic alliance that is effective in improving the quality of lives of patients, it is crucial that patients are 100 percent involved in their health care plans, and in their health care treatments.”
Oyin Otubusen, physiotherapist
