Some journal articles available on-line
by Barry Bub, M.D.
The
patient’s lament: hidden key to effective communication: how to recognize
and transform
Article:
http://mh.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/30/2/63
Article Review: Journal of Medical
Humanities
The
nightmare of litigation: a survivors true story
http://www.obgmanagement.com/article_pages.asp?AID=3465&UID=
Listen up: It’s a practice builder
http://www.memag.com/memag/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=134993
Peer
reviewed Publications
1.
Bub,B. The Patient’s Lament: Hidden Key to Effective Communication; How
to Recognize and Transform. Journal of Medical Humanities 30:
63-69, 2004.
2.
Bub, B. The Nightmare of Litigation: A Survivor’s True Story. OBG
Management: pp. 21-27, January, 2005.
3.
Bub,B. Going to the
DOCS. Journal of Medical Humanities 32: 45-46, 2006.
4.
Bub,B. Sam and the Perfect World. Academic Medicine, Vol. 82
No. 2. February, 2007.
5.
Bub,B. Focusing and the Healing Sequence: Reclaiming Authentic Emotions
as an Aid to Communication and Well-Being in Medicine Explore The
Journal of Science and Healing. July/August, 2007 Vol.3 No.4.
6.
Bub,B. Traumatic Childbirth: Address the great emotional pain, too.
OBG Management Vol.19 Issue9, Sept, 2007.
Award winning article
7.
Bub,B. Breaking Bad News. OBG Management, publication pending .
8.
Bub,B. Are You Listening? Academic Medicine publication pending.
Non peer-reviewed Publications
1.
Bub,B. Saying Goodbye to the Practice I Loved. Medical Economics:
pp. 215-219, July, 1999.
2.
Bub,B. Listen up: It’s a Practice Builder. Medical Economics:
pp. 54-57, December 3, 2004.
3.
Bub,B The Lament, Hidden Key to Effective Listening. Healthcare
Communication Review, Vol.5 No2.
3.
Bub,B. What’s Become of Bedside Manner?
response letter, New York Times.
December
4, 2005.
4. Bub,B. The Lament: Hidden Key to Effective Listening.
Quarterly Newsletter of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative
Medicine. Vol. 7, No.2, pp. 1-3, Summer, 2006.
5.
Bub,B. Turning Physician Stress Into Physician Empowerment.
Physician’s News Digest, September, 2006.
Article Review
That sinking feeling
Bub B, 'The Patient's Lament: Hidden
Key to Effective Communication: How to Recognize and Transform', Medical Humanities Edition of J Med
Ethics, 30(2):63-69 (2004).
This wonderful review and viewpoint paper addresses the issue of how and why
patients complain about their plight to doctors, and how to transform this
from something to be endured into a therapeutic tool. Indeed, it challenges
the current model of doctor-patient interaction that disparagingly labels
patients who frequently 'moan' as 'heartsinks'.
We
all need a good moan - or to use Bub's more eloquent term, a lament - now
and again. This paper helps us to see it as a normal and useful part of
human discourse to which doctors, by the nature of their calling, will
frequently be exposed. It gives doctors the intellectual and social tools
they need to recognise and respond therapeutically, whether the lament comes
from a colleague, a patient, a friend or a chance encounter.
Bub defines the phenomenon
and classifies it into its acute and chronic forms, giving examples with
appropriate responses. There are lessons to be learnt from hairdressers,
sample patient-doctor dialogue showing how to apply the principles he
discusses, and a model for addressing patient laments. When I recently gave
up smoking and had a good old moan about missing tobacco to my partner, I
was able to recognise it for the lament that it was, thanks to this paper,
and use that to help me move on from my nicotine addiction. I heartily
recommend this erudite and entertaining paper to all healthcare workers.
Review
written by Sean.Kavanagh@mps.org.uk
