Effective Clinical Metaphors for Patient Communication

Metaphors are an effective way to help patients easily understand complex ideas we talk about, be it diagnosis, treatment options or prognosis.

In this episode I go through three metaphors I use regularly in clinical practice that most of the patients you see can relate to and will hopefully benefit from, regardless of the speciality you are in.

They are;

The Computer Default Setting (2:04)

The Mobile Phone Analogy (4:30)

The Cocktail Analogy (7:28)

For the visuals on The Cocktail Analogy, you can find them on social media @BWhybrowPhysio or the YouTube video of this Podcast titled "Steal These Metaphors!".

Do let me know how you get on using them and tell me other metaphors you use which you feel are effective, they might just get read out.

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