Dialogue Volume 10 Issue 3 2014 | Page 31

Practice partner By Stuart Foxman How Jumping To Conclusions – JTC - can Hinder Patient Care H ave you heard the one about the Show-and-Tell Gerbil? It seems a mother is driving her son to school, where he’ll display his pet rodent for the class. The gerbil is in a box on the passenger seat. In transit, it gets out of the box and crawls up mom’s pants. She “If we don’t listen can’t get it loose, so stops the car, carefully and create jumps out, and begins to shake a relationship where furiously. A passing driver thinks the patients can speak woman is having a seizure. So he their mind, we’ll miss pulls over and grabs her, trying to calm her down