Talking with Patients, Volume 2: Clinical Technique

by Eric J. Cassell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262530562
• ISBN13: 9780262530569
• Release Date: March 1985
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher