32. Compassionate Care

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

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🗓️ 3 March 2015

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Imagine riding in a car with your friends, and everything goes black. The next thing you know, you are lying somewhere, but you can’t see. You’re in indescribable pain. You can’t speak. You can’t move your head.

Then you feel a soft touch on your hand and arm, and a caring voice explains that you were in a car accident. This person squeezes your hand and says, “I’m here.” Those two words make a world of difference.

This is the story of Marcus Engel. Marcus has used his experience to write books for healthcare professionals, teaching them how to better communicate and treat their patients compassionately. In this episode, I talk about some of Marcus' tips for compassionate care and why HSPs are well-suited to care professions.

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Resources mentioned in the podcast:

I'm Here - Compassionate Communication in Patient Care by Marcus Engel
The Other End Of The Stethoscope - 33 Insights for Excellent Patient Care by Marcus Engel

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the highly sensitive person podcast, a weekly podcast for people who experience the world brighter, louder, and more intensely.
0:11.3	Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits.
0:18.0	Thanks for tuning in. I'm your host, Kelly.
0:21.4	Today's topic is compassionate care for caregivers or in hospital settings.
0:26.8	If you aren't in the healthcare profession in any way, you might wonder why you would care
0:30.5	about this. Well, you're an HSP, so let's be honest, you care about everything, right?
0:36.5	Just hang in there because I think you'll find
0:38.4	this interesting. I know I did. Imagine riding in a car with your friends and everything goes black.
0:45.7	The next thing you know, you're lying somewhere, but you can't see. There's just blackness. You're in
0:52.0	indescribable pain. You can't speak so you can't ask questions. You can't
0:57.0	move your head, but you can hear some voices around you. What happens in those next few moments is
1:03.0	critical. You're lying there so scared. Then you feel a soft touch on your hand and arm,
1:08.5	and a caring voice introduces themselves to you and explains
1:12.1	to you that you were in a car accident. And then this person squeezes your hand and says,
1:17.8	I'm here. This is what happened to Marcus Engle when he was an 18-year-old college freshman back in
1:24.2	1993. Marcus contacted me a while back because he'd heard the podcast,
1:29.2	and we corresponded a bit, and he was kind enough to send me some books he'd written about his
1:32.8	life experience. The content of his books were the inspiration for the show today. So the car that
1:38.6	smashed into the car he was a passenger in was hit by a drunk driver. Marcus was blinded,
1:43.7	in the hospital for months and went through
1:45.4	two years of rehabilitation and over 300 hours of reconstructive facial surgery. When reading
1:52.5	Marcus's story, I felt so much empathy for the situation he was in and for anyone in similar
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