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The Intelligent Patient's Guide to the Doctor-Patient Relationship :
Learning How to Talk So Your Doctor Will Listen by Barbara M. Korsch
and Caroline Harding
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The Intelligent Patient's Guide to the Doctor-Patient
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Possibly the best book written on doctor-patient
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Real-life examples drive home the key points.
Receptive patients stand to gain significant insights.
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It takes two to tango.
Ignores growing problem of willful miscommunication.
Patients who most need help won't read this. |
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The Bottom Line -
This book analyzes every aspect of your interactions with your doctor
all aimed at improving communications so that you get the care you
really need. Could be subtitled, The Proper Care and Feeding of Your
Physician.
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A book on communicating effectively with your doctors. |
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Uses hundreds of examples from real doctor-patient interactions. |
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Offers important insights to any reasonably receptive patient. |
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The Intelligent Patient's Guide to the Doctor-Patient Relationship :
Learning How to Talk So Your Doctor Will Listen
This is a book about communication, a particular kind of communication
that can mean the difference between life and death - your communication
with your doctors. Dr. Korsch (a medical professor and chairman of
the council of the Bayer Institute for Health Communication) has spent
years analyzing why doctors and patients so commonly misunderstand one
another. This book is filled with examples of "what they said vs.
what they really meant." The authors get into the heads of both doctors
and patients to show why communication fails so often, and gives clear and
practical advice on how patients can convey what they mean, and hear what
the doctor is trying to say. The final chapters give advice on how
to communicate clearly during specific medical episodes, such as when
you're in the emergency room, in the doctor's waiting room, or when your
child is sick. Anyone who is open-minded, introspective and
reasonably analytical would find this book a great help. It seems
clear that some of the patients and doctors who serve as examples in this
book, however, do not fit this profile. | |
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