Addressing lifestyle – closing this Pandora’s box is as necessary as opening it

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Addressing lifestyle – closing this Pandora’s box is as necessary as opening it

Jo Scott-Jones

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 04:39 PM

Pandora succumbed to her curiosity and opened a “box” – more accurately, it was a storage jar

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Addressing the lifestyle drivers of your patients’ health problems is the right thing to do, and is probably expected by patients, but it requires you to have a consultation “escape plan”

Key points, Opening the “Pandora’s box” of lifestyle issues with a patient who comes in for another reason, in the middle of an already busy day, is daunting.

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