Making the Patient Your Partner: Communication Skills for Doctors and Other Caregivers

by W. Sterling Edwards

Book Overview

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 noncompliance, 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865692734
• ISBN13: 9780865692732
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"