So when everyone splits up to fight the Pting there is this wonderful symmetry to everything. Because we are on a hospital ship there are a whole bunch of patients with their own issues, like the pregnant Yoss (Jack Shalloo) or the mysterious Eve (Suzanne Packer) that is not being honest with her ailments. Image Credit: BBCįor me, there were a number of reasons why this episode worked as well as it did, and the first is the use of the ensemble cast. Something has just gone bump in the night, and it is not going to end well. From this point onwards we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be ahead. Well, the where is a hospital ship, not great because they have left the TARDIS behind on a junk planet to get stolen, but workable, that is until something crashes into the ship and all hell breaks loose. One explosion later and we wake up in a bright room being helped by Astos (Brett Goldstein) and Mabli (Lois Chimimba) and asking that very important questions as their organs resettle “ where are we”. Some light banter about junk galaxies ensues and we get into that familiar grove when Graham find what they are looking for, wait nope, he found a sonic mine. So to set the scene, we open in on a junk heap as our gang Graham (Bradley Walsh), Ryan (Tosin Cole), and Yas (Mandip Gill) are scanning for something for The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker). Well, this week we see it all come together when you have the emotional weight as well as the tight construction and flow of the episode, that also allows each member of the ensemble a moment to shine.
This season we have had the highs of Rosa ( see review) but also a lot of awkwardness in the construction of episodes, like the show is exploring how to make it all work. Medical education programs at all levels should include teaching of physician-patient communication.TL DR – A deeply emotional episode that using the entire ensemble to their best, a truly wonderful episode of Doctor Who RESULTS: It is clear from the literature that better physician communication skills improve patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes and that good communication skills can be taught and learned.ĬONCLUSIONS: It is important that physicians learn the principles of good physician-patient communication and apply them in clinical practice. Part three of the framework describes one approach for delineating and organizing the specific skills that research supports for communicating effectively with patients - the Calgary Cambridge Guide. The second part of the framework explores "first principles" of effective communication and includes a brief look at the historical context that has significantly influenced our thinking about, and practice of communication in health care. It then discusses three categories of communication skills (content, process, and perceptual skills) and six goals that physicians and patients work to achieve through their communication with each other. METHODS: The three-part, evidence-based framework first defines communication in medicine in terms of five underlying assumptions about communication and the learning of communication skills.
OBJECTIVES: Responding to both interests, this paper offers a practical conceptual framework for thinking systematically about how to improve physician-patient communication to a professional level of competence. BACKGROUND: In a formal needs assessment, conducted prior to the Canadian Headache Society's recent national continuing education workshop, participants expressed particular enthusiasm for enhancing their own communication skills or their teaching of those skills.