I don't want to overgeneralize, but when it comes to patients, all old women love me.
Partially because I really try to relate to them. I ask them about their kids and their grandkids. Again, I don't want to overgeneralize, but all old women love to talk about their grandkids. Although I do pretty well with the ones who don't have grandkids too. Like, we talk about bridge. I think deep down, I'm actually a 70-year-old woman.
The only problem is that once I get them talking, it's hard to stop. I find it very easy to do a directed history on a chatty patient, but I feel bad interrupting someone in the middle of a story about their grandchild. But if I let them, each of these patients would go on for hours and I'd get home sometime after midnight.
Any advice on how to cut these conversations short after a respectable amount of time?
That's a tough one. My husband will talk the doctor's ear off and still not answer the question being asked, so I go with him and constantly redirect. The male doctors don't seem to have much issue with interrupting him, but the females seem less willing. I think as females we are more empathetic. As an RN this was sometimes a problem for me too. Usually I would say something along the lines of "I want to hear all about it, but first I have to run do (whatever)", and try to escape. When I noticed a doctor trapped in a room I would knock on the door and apologize, but there was an important call for the doctor. If you know that you might be stuck in a room, maybe you could ask someone to bail you out if need be.
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