Making the patient your partner : communication skills for doctors and other caregivers

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Label

Making the patient your partner : communication skills for doctors and other caregivers

Title remainder

communication skills for doctors and other caregivers

Statement of responsibility

Thomas Gordon, W. Sterling Edwards

Creator

• Gordon, Thomas, 1918-2002

Contributor

• Edwards, W. Sterling, 1920-

Subject

• Communication in medicine
• Communication in medicine
• Interpersonal Relations
• Interpersonal communication
• Communication
• Medical personnel and patient
• Medical personnel and patient
• Professional-Patient Relations
• Interpersonal communication

Language

eng

Summary

• Health professionals need to learn the communication skills that will create collaborative and mutually satisfying relationships with patients. The failure of doctors to relate effectively to patients results in non-compliance, malpractice suits, longer stays in hospitals and other negative outcomes. Interpersonal skills can be easily learned by studying the techniques described by Gordon and Edwards. Using cases, interviews, dialogues, and vignettes, the authors provide effective models or blueprints for health professionals to follow
• Gordon is a psychologist who has pioneered internationally recognized effectiveness training programs widely used by teachers, parents, salesmen, managers, and other professionals. He has published six books that have sold over five million copies in seventeen languages. In this work, he has enlisted the expertise of Dr. Edwards, a highly respected medical doctor and educator, to provide the necessary insider's view of the health profession. Together they make a convincing case for doctors to develop closer and more collaborative relationships with patients

Cataloging source

DNLM/DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

R727.3

LC item number

.G63 1995

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

• 1995 K-316
• W 62

NLM item number

G665m 1995