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Suzana KE Makowski MD MMMAssistant Professor of MedicinePalliative Care in the Cancer Center of ExcellenceDirector, Lois Green Learning CommunityUniversity of Massachusetts (Worcester, MA)
Ronald M Epstein MDProfessor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry, Oncology and NursingDirector, Rochester Center to Improve Communication in Health CareUniversity of Rochester Medical Center (New York, USA)
Just being: An Introduction to Mindfulness and Its Role in Tending to the Dying
Disclosure Statement Dr. R. Epstein and Dr. S. Makowski have no
relevant financial relationships
What is Mindfulness?
A process of regulating attention to bring a quality of non-elaborative awareness to current experience, with an orientation of curiosity, experiential openness, and acceptance.(Bishop)
Empathy as emotional labor
To cultivate an acute ability to empathize with others, once needs patience, curiosity, and willingness to subject one’s mind to the patient’s world…
Larson, Yao JAMA 2006
Exquisite Empathy
“Highly present, sensitively attuned, well-boundaried, heartfelt empathic engagement”
Kearney et al, JAMA 2009
Self-awareness
To hold contradictory truths simultaneously
Clashing discords
Loss of eQuiLibRium
Great Questions
Longing
Learning to stay through discomfort
So I think healing has to do with slowing down, coming into the present, listening, accepting, forgiving, entering into community with, and healing is prevented by the opposites of those things.”
- Balfour Mount, MD
This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor
Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your houseempty of its furniture,still, treat each guest honorably.He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,meet them at the door laughing,and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,because each has been sentas a guide from beyond.
Jelalludin Rumi (1207-1273)
The Guest House
Unexpected Visitors in Medicine
Ambiguity and uncertainty
Conflict between patient and clinician needs
Strong emotions: the patient’s and yours
Blame
Errors
Unanticipated serious illness
Impermanence of knowledge
Intractable problems
Lack of control
Real or imagined threats induce a similar stress response:
Imagined scenarios involving threat or failure
Comparison of actual situation with ideal Degradation of self or present situation Recall of disturbing events Self-criticism Rumination Emotional avoidance Pessimism, denial
Burnout Definition
Depersonalization Emotional exhaustion Sense of low personal accomplishment
Effects Affects work life, relatively spares personal life Numbing, distancing, not noticing, empathic failure Associated with errors, leaving practice, suicidal ideation
High prevalence 25% - 60% of practicing physicians 76% of internal medicine residents 49.6% of students – 11.2% with suicidal ideation
Shanafelt et al. 2003 and 2005; Dyrbye LN et al 2008
Mindlessness: denial, self-deception and delusion
… “the tendency of the mind to seek premature closure .. That quality of the mind that imposes a definition on things and then mistakes the definition for the actual experience”
Epstein M 1995
Looking but failing to see
Mindful practice
Moment-to-moment purposeful attentiveness to one’s own mental processes during every day work with the goal of practicing with clarity and compassion
Epstein RM 1999
Three ways of paying attention
Gusnard DA et al 2001
Alerting = vigilance for the expected
Orienting = assigning relevance to certain information, ignoring other information
Executive = noticing and integration of unanticipated events
A mindful moment – attending to the quality of attention
Mindfulness lessons from Brahms
WHY SHOULD MINDFULNESS MATTER TO CLINICIANS?
Physician well-being
(resilience vs. burnout)
Quality of care(vigilance vs.
mindless errors)
Quality of caring(presence vs.abandonment)
Shanafelt, T. D., et al. (2002). Burnout and self-reported patient care in an internal medicine residency program. Ann Intern Med, 136, 358-367; Shanafelt, T. D., et al. (2005). Relationship between increased personal well-being and enhanced empathy among internal medicine residents. J Gen Intern Med, 20, 559-564.
Physician well-being
(resilience vs. burnout)
Quality of care(vigilance vs.
mindless errors)
Quality of caring(presence vs.abandonment)
Mindful practice
Mindful practitioners
Qualities
Attentive observation
Critical curiosity
Beginner’s mind
Presence
Attitudes/behaviors
Motivation
Clear perception
Openness
Attenuation of reactivity
Mental stability
“Slowing down when you should”
Promoting mindfulness
Formal practice
Informal practice
Situational awareness
Mindful health systems
Informal practice (mindful moments) Stop – breathe – be
20 breaths
Doorknobs and mirrors
Just listening
Mindfulpractice
Narrative
Appreciative inquiry
Greaterself-awarenessLower reactivity
Interpersonal mindfulnessProvidescontext
Builds on strengths –Mental stability
Increased attentiveness, curiosity,responsivenessand presence
More effectivecommunicationwith patients and staffRadical honesty with self
Improved physician self-efficacy, vitality
satisfaction, andconfidence
Reduced physicianstress and burnout
Improved patient
satisfaction
Improved practiceEfficiency
Improved qualityof care
Mindful practice, narrative and appreciative inquiry: effects on communication, clinician well-being and clinical care
Asking reflective questionsQuestions that “open up” and “tend not toward edification”
“What feelings are affecting my ability to observe?”
“What am I assuming that might not be true?”
“How are prior experiences and expectations affecting how I view the situation?”
“Did I use ‘fuzzy logic’ or ‘cognitive alibis’ to justify my actions?”
“What would a trusted peer say about the way I managed this situation?”
“Am I really done, or am I engaging in premature closure?”
One of the things that comes out of this too, is that when you establish a practice of
thinking more honestly, thinking more clearly, speaking more honestly,that definitely leaks out into your work everyday…it certainly opens you up to being more ready with patients,
colleagues, family, to have those kinds of conversations and to have that kind of a more intimate, more honest
interaction with people and that certainly was the case for me that came out in the
rest of my work…It certainly made it much more immediate and easy to do in
my practice.
Participant
…and patients notice
Inner-city HIV-infected patients Observational study Mindful Attention Awareness Scale correlated
with: Patient-centered communication, positive
emotional tone, psychosocial orientation Patient ratings of communication, satisfaction
Beach et al, 2010
Interpersonal mindfulness
What did you learn…
About listening and being heard?
About being mindful in stressful/challenging situations?
About how you practice?
Two Kinds of Intelligence
There are two kinds of intelligence: One acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences.
With such intelligence you rise in the world. You get ranked ahead or behind others in regard to your competence in retaining information. You stroll with this intelligence in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more marks on your preserving tablets.
There is another kind of tablet, one already completed and preserved inside you. A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness in the center of the chest.
This other intelligence does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid, and it doesn’t move from outside to inside through the conduits of plumbing-learning.
This second knowing is a fountainhead from within you, moving out.
Rumi
Acknowledgments
Collaborators:Mick Krasner MDFred Marshall MDScott McDonald MDTim Quill MDTony Suchman MDHoward Beckman MDBen Chapman PhDChris Mooney MAMelissa WendlandNancy AdamsMary Jane Milano
Consultants / muses:Michael Baime MDRita Charon MDRon HoffmanJon Kabat-Zinn PhDSaki Santorelli MAPenny Williamson ScD
Funders / supporters:Physicians Fdn for Health Systems
ExcellenceNY Chapter, American College of
PhysiciansMonroe County Medical SocietyRochester Individual Practice
AssociationArthur Vining Davis FoundationsArnold P. Gold FoundationMannix Fund for Medical Education
Just being: Mindful Practice and the Ethics of the MomentRon Epstein MD
Departments of Family Medicine, Psychiatry and OncologyRochester Center to Improve Communication in Health CareUniversity of Rochester, NY, [email protected]
Participants
70 Primary care physicans
54% Male, 46% Female
49% Internists, 41% FP, 10% Peds
71% suburban , 25% urban
15.9 years in practice