What’s the Relevance of Emotional Intelligence in Medicine?
What’s the Relevance of Emotional Intelligence in Medicine? https://pediatricsnationwide.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Emotional-Intelligence-Graphic-1024x386.jpg 1024 386 Mike Patrick, MD and Erica Banta, MBA, LDSS https://pediatricsnationwide.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Michael-Patrick.jpg
The practice of clinical medicine requires an intelligent mindset. Strong cognitive intelligence (IQ) is required to develop and maintain a substantial knowledge base and to call upon the critical thinking skills needed to synthesize a hundred points of data into a meaningful clinical picture, correct diagnosis and appropriate management plan. But another type of intelligence…