What Patients Say, what Doctors Hear
- ISBN-10
- 0807062634
- ISBN-13
- 9780807062630
- Category
- Communication in medicine
- Pages
- 242
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Author
- Danielle Ofri
Description
"Patients, anxious to convey their symptoms, feel an urgency to "make their case" to their doctors. Doctors, under pressure to be efficient, multitask while patients speak and often miss the key elements. Add in stereotypes, unconscious bias, conflicting agendas, and fear of lawsuits and the risk of misdiagnosis and medical errors multiplies dangerously. ... Reporting on the latest research studies and interviewing scholars, doctors, and patients, Dr. Ofri reveals how better communication can lead to better health for all of us."--Jacket.
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