Associate Professor Matt Sabin is the Chief Medical Officer of the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. It was not in this role that we asked him to speak but rather in his clinical role as a paediatric endocrinologist running the largest tertiary hospital obesity service in Australia.
There are some conversations that we just don’t want to have. It may be because we think they are too hard, too risky, too political. But sometimes we have to have these fierce conversations because we care about the health of our patients. We wouldn’t think twice about counselling our adult patients about the lifestyle risks of smoking, drinking or being overweight but we shun the harder conversation about their children. As Matt points out we all have an opinion on how to lose weight, based on the lived experiences of friends and family, but it is not wise to bring this into the clinical space.
This talk was recorded live at DFTB18 in Melbourne, Australia. With the theme of ‘Science and Story‘ we pushed our speakers to step out of their comfort zones and consider why we do what we do. Caring for children is not just about acquiring the scientific knowhow but also about taking a look beyond a diagnosis or clinical conundrum at the patient and their families.
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