No Difficult Patients: When Your Job Isn't to Fix Anyone

If healing ultimately comes from within a patient, then the clinician's job shifts: not to force or fix, but to figure out what needs to get out of the way so healing can happen. This clip finds real ease in that reframe — there stop being "difficult patients." It doesn't mean abandoning judgment (you can still decline to prescribe opioids and benzodiazepines together); it means you're no longer straining to convince anyone. A look at why physicians carry such a heavy desire to fix, when professional and personal worth gets tied to a patient's A1C and whether they're on the statin.

Part of Roots of Care, a series on whole-person, trauma-informed primary care. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtaeaNoZCQ4