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Patient decision making

In this video, we explore how patients want to take part of the decision making related to their treatment.

In this video, we explore how patients want to take part in the decision making related to their treatment.

We will meet Bob. Bob is a 67-year-old man, who worked as as an IT consultant for a big tech. company, but has now retired. He went to his General Practitioner to receive some news on the results of the lab some blood tests his doctor ordered last time he was there. Let’s see how that goes.

Now that you have watched the video. What are your thoughts about it? Do you think there are many patients like Bob? What about those who we know are not going to speak up as Bob did? Maybe they want to ask questions, but won’t for any reason. We will explore this more in future steps.

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