Transcript: Stephen P. Bradley, M.D.

Establishing patient-centered healing

[Lindberg:]: So how do you decide in the case of an individual patient, whether to treat the obesity by [indiscernible], or send them over to the other side and get talked to for a while?
[Bradley:]: It’s not an either or, and that’s the beautiful part. The sense is, as I’m saying, we can use either the primary colors, or we can use all the tints and hues that are available to us to paint this picture. So when we have the armamentarium of different disciplines, we are then able to offer the patient what they feel is most amenable, and that’s an important point. I think one of the key points to the way we do medicine here is we ask three major questions. We ask the patient, “What do you think is wrong with you?” We ask the patient, “Why do you think this happened to you?” And we ask the patient “What do you think might make this better?” We may not agree with any of those. They might not be in our consciousness or whatever, but I think it’s an important point to establish that patient-centered healing.