Talking with the Patient Who Doesn't Know Why

You’re listening to Precision Bites: Talking with Patients about Weight Management, a podcast of simulated clinical encounters dealing with motivational interviewing and weight management in a variety of social contexts. Today the provider will see a 40 year old male presenting for a follow-up after a recent hospitalization for biliary colic. A cholecystectomy was not performed. Things we want you to take away from this encounter include: 1. How to develop the patient’s awareness of the discrepancies between his or her perception and health outcomes 2. How to ask advanced diet history questions