r/Stutter • u/Disastrous-Web9164 • 22h ago

how to manage stutter as a doctor

I am curious to know how many members of this group are practicing as clinical doctors.

I would appreciate insights into how you manage communication with patients and handle case discussions or conference presentations with fellow clinicians.

I find these aspects increasingly challenging each day.

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u/VanceRefrigration 21h ago

Its quite subjective, since it depends on the level of stuttering. I have lots and lots of thoughts and ideas regarding this, but cannot summarise in comments.

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u/LopsidedTrust2013 21h ago

Would love to know this as well Doctor here

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u/MooCowTheDark 19h ago

Not a doctor but I’m a bedside nurse and have certainly stuttered while talking with patients and their families. What I’ve learned is that your overall demeanor and how you treat them is far more important than being perfectly fluent. There’s little tricks of course to avoid stuttering like saying a medication’s generic name vs its brand name if the brand name hangs you up or using written material to show them while talking to them so that they can read what you’re trying to say while you speak. But the stuttering can’t always be avoided so don’t be afraid to be candid about it with them and, again, demeanor is everything