Dr Terry Hannan discusses how listening can improve a patient's health
The value of stories
Dr Terry Hannan, Associate Professor and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, has a lot to share from his over 45 years in clinical practice.
This is an extract from Dr Hannan's interview with The Examiner about his book "Bedside Stories".
Though published in 2018, [Bedside Stories] is more timely now than ever with the discussions on voluntary assisted dying happening in Tasmania. The book consists of short, human documentations of encounters between Dr Hannan and his patients over a period of 45 years, of which the conversation often centred on "death" or "dying".
That's how the stories of 45 years were kept, because they had significance for me. They were just beautiful stories.
During that period of time, Dr Hannan worked as a physician in internal medicine and did 12 years as a palliative care physician. One could say that he has seen the worst times in people's lives.”
Read the full article in The Examiner (Subscription required).
Dr Hannan is a past President of the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) who has over thirty years international and national experience in Health Informatics and e-Health. He was the former author of the InformaticsInsider.
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