Talking with Patients The Theory of Doctor-Patient Communication

Name: Talking with Patients The Theory of Doctor-Patient Communication
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ISBN: 9780262530552

ISBN-10: 0262530554

ISBN-13: 9780262530552

Edition: 1985

Authors: Eric J. Cassell

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Spoken language is the most important diagnostic and therapeutic tool in medicine, and, according to Dr. Cassell, "we must be as precise with it as a surgeon with a scalpel." In these two volumes, he analyzes doctor-patient communication and shows how doctors can use language for the maximum benefit of their patients. Throughout, Dr. Cassell stresses that patients are complex, changing, psychological, social and physical beings whose illnesses are well represented by their own communication. He proposes that both listening and speaking are arts that can be learned best when they are based on the way that spoken language functions in medicine. Accordingly, Volume I focuses on the workings…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/27/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English