Debra Klein

The First Rule for Successful Lifestyle Conversations is to Start With Readiness . Most Lifestyle conversations fail- not becuase patients don't care- but becuase we start too far ahead of where they are.

Did you ever have a patient whose blood pressure spiked the moment they sat down in your office? That's the classic White Coat Syndrome . The common belief is that the patient is nervous because of you—the person in the white coat, the scrubs, the clinical setting. But what if the fear isn't of the messenger, but of the message ? Their anxiety is a confrontation with a truth they’ve been avoiding: The Unavoidable Truth: All the skipped workouts, the overindulgence, the quiet avoidance of...

A 3-Minute Read for Healthcare Providers: Embracing the Whole-Person Approach For decades, the patient-provider conversation has focused on symptoms, test results, and prescriptions. While these elements are essential, a growing body of evidence—and patient feedback—suggests this limited scope is failing both parties. Today's patients have a broader, "whole-person" view of health, and they are looking to you, their trusted provider, for more. A 2018 survey conducted by the Harris Poll on...