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Changing How We Think about Difficult Patients: A Guide for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals

Changing How We Think about Difficult Patients: A Guide for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals

A gift for suffering clinicians: this book teaches them to understand, ask better questions, and to accept their patients’ most challenging behavior

2022

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Joan Naidorf
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Modern Women

Celebrating that Final Flight The captain takes one last bow.

On Friday, I was returning from the Keck Medical School at USC, where I was giving a talk about how doctors and other healthcare…

4 min read1 hour ago

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Celebrating that Final Flight
The captain takes one last bow.

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Joan Naidorf
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Modern Women

Looking for Puppy Love?

Find it at The Dog House-UK

5 min readApr 21, 2024

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Looking for Puppy Love?

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Joan Naidorf
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ILLUMINATION-Curated

What Can Doctors Do When Patients Disagree?

Lean in closer to find out why.

8 min readApr 14, 2024

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What Can Doctors Do When Patients Disagree?

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Joan Naidorf
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ILLUMINATION-Curated

Have Doctors Stopped Listening to Their Patients?

The consequences can be devastating.

9 min readApr 7, 2024

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Have Doctors Stopped Listening to Their Patients?

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Joan Naidorf
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ILLUMINATION-Curated

Can Doctors Prevent Complications?

It's harder than you think.

8 min readMar 18, 2024

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Can Doctors Prevent Complications?

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Joan Naidorf
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Modern Women

Reading the Ladies of Medicine

Redefining Real Self-Care

5 min readMar 17, 2024

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Reading the Ladies of Medicine

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Joan Naidorf
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ILLUMINATION-Curated

When Cultures Clash in the Emergency Room

Insights from the ER department: How can we bridge language and culture gaps when dealing with our physical and mental health?

8 min readMar 9, 2024

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When Cultures Clash in the Emergency Room

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Joan Naidorf
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Modern Women

Are we Biased Against “Difficult” Patients?

Perhaps their habits, customs, and priorities are different?

4 min readMar 6, 2024

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Are we Biased Against “Difficult” Patients?

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ILLUMINATION-Curated

Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

A Review of Code Gray by Farzon A Navhi, MD

4 min readFeb 24, 2024

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Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

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Joan Naidorf
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Modern Women

Therapy Isn’t Just for White People: a Review

Kiara Imani’s Reflections on Racial Trauma, Medical Gaslighting, and More

5 min readFeb 17, 2024

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Therapy Isn’t Just for White People: a Review

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Joan Naidorf

Joan Naidorf

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Joan Naidorf DO is an emergency physician, author, and speaker based in Alexandria, VA. also into reading, traveling, tennis, parenting, and Dolly the poodle

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