Author: Eric J. Cassell
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: B008PI4NQ6
Category: Medical
Talking with Patients: Volume 1 - The Theory of Doctor-Patient Communication (Mit Press Series on the Humanistic & Social Dimensions of Medicine)
Spoken language is the most important diagnostic and therapeutic tool in medicine, and, according to Dr. Download Talking with Patients medical books for free.
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 of spoken language in the clinical setting. It analyzes su Get Talking with Patients our bestseller medical books.
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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 It analyzes su
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