The Most Unhealthy Relationship Of All: A Guide To Better Doctor-Patient Communication - Couverture souple

Hertzberg, Mark

 
9780595272006: The Most Unhealthy Relationship Of All: A Guide To Better Doctor-Patient Communication
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595272002 ISBN 13 : 9780595272006
Editeur : iUniverse, 2003

Synopsis

Close Encounters of the Medical KindThe entire health care system should be overhauled to encourage communication. In the real world, any doctor or patient can learn to communicate with almost anybody right now. Courses in medical jargon and communication workshops are not mandatory. If you are reading this you have the required skills. All anybody really needs is a better idea of what's actually going on in the doctor patient dynamic.It seems every patient believes doctors are terrible communicators. Most doctors probably are, but so are most patients. Almost every doctor sees the great problem, but every single one of them sees him/herself as the outstanding exception. There's a reason the working title for this book was Doctors are From Mercury, Patients are From Pluto. As with any relationship, the blame isn't on one person or the other: It's a product of the way they work, or don't work, together.Take a trip behind the scenes and into the heads of everyone involved in the communication mess that's modern medicine. There are many tips and suggestions offered within. The truth is, once you understand the doctor patient relationship dynamic and why it's this way, all anyone needs is a bit of common sense.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Close Encounters of the Medical KindThe entire health care system should be overhauled to encourage communication. In the real world, any doctor or patient can learn to communicate with almost anybody right now. Courses in medical jargon and communication workshops are not mandatory. If you are reading this you have the required skills. All anybody really needs is a better idea of what's actually going on in the doctor patient dynamic.It seems every patient believes doctors are terrible communicators. Most doctors probably are, but so are most patients. Almost every doctor sees the great problem, but every single one of them sees him/herself as the outstanding exception. There's a reason the working title for this book was Doctors are From Mercury, Patients are From Pluto. As with any relationship, the blame isn't on one person or the other: It's a product of the way they work, or don't work, together.Take a trip behind the scenes and into the heads of everyone involved in the communication mess that's modern medicine. There are many tips and suggestions offered within. The truth is, once you understand the doctor patient relationship dynamic and why it's this way, all anyone needs is a bit of common sense.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Mark Hertzberg graduated S.U.N.Y. College of Optometry in 1982. He has worked with patients in all settings from private practice and optical stores to correctional facilities and hospitals.Mark has studied, performed and taught standup, improv, and comedy writing since 1979. He has given seminars on using principals and techniques from comedy, improv and standup in the corporate world and daily life.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595272002
ISBN 13 
9780595272006
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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