paternalism

In a recent issue of JAMA, Dr. Anne R. Cappola, Director of the Penn Medical Communication Research Institute, takes a stab at providing strategies for better medical communication. Episteme

The account of the Virginia-based Red Hen restaurant owner insisting Press Secretary Sarah Sanders leave the premises due to presumed political differences has been playing on a loop of social and mainstream media punditry.

Though the current buzzword in healthcare is “patient-centered,” it appears our “thought leaders” instead tend to subscribe to more paternalistic endeavors to control – oops!