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EHA 2025 | Navigating SCD together: the importance of patient and physician collaboration
In this video, Caterina Minniti, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, NY, emphasizes the importance of collaboration between patients and healthcare professionals during the treatment journey for sickle cell disease (SCD). Dr Minniti stresses that patients care more about the empathy and compassion of the healthcare provider than their knowledge, and reminds healthcare professionals that this should be at the forefront of their minds when caring for patients. This interview took place at the 30th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) in Milan, Italy.
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That session was mind-opening for most of us. Seeing the journey of a patient who immigrated from Africa to Italy and even though she is in a country where access to help is available to all, the tribulations and the difficulty that she had were really sobering for us. So what this has taught us is that we need to work with the patient. The patient is at the center of our actions and if I may repeat a phrase that I used during the symposium – I think that patients care less how much we know and they care more about how much we care...
That session was mind-opening for most of us. Seeing the journey of a patient who immigrated from Africa to Italy and even though she is in a country where access to help is available to all, the tribulations and the difficulty that she had were really sobering for us. So what this has taught us is that we need to work with the patient. The patient is at the center of our actions and if I may repeat a phrase that I used during the symposium – I think that patients care less how much we know and they care more about how much we care. And I say this to all my fellows while I train them, it is really really important that we take that in. Patients need to feel the empathy, the compassion from all of us in the healthcare system. And I don’t mean only physicians. When I talk about the healthcare system, I talk about nurses, phlebotomists, everybody that is involved in this multidisciplinary approach to care for patients with sickle cell disease.
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