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When doctors use communication skills effectively, both they and their patients benefit.
Firstly, doctors identify their patients' problems more accurately. 1 Secondly, their patients …

Machines that can learn and correct themselves already perform better than doctors at some
tasks, says Jörg Goldhahn, but Vanessa Rampton and Giatgen A Spinas maintain that …

Communication difficulties between doctors and patients have been looked at by
researchers from several disciplines who have tried to explore why these occur. Mishler, for …

Teaching clinical skills to undergraduates focuses on examination, planning treatment, safe
prescribing, and procedures such as venepuncture, suturing, and cardiopulmonary …

Anyone who wants to be regarded as a good doctor needs to possess effective
communication skills. Everyone expects that of us, but the truth is that good communication …

Last year, my father was told by his family doctor that the cardiologist had found aortic
stenosis during a diagnostic evaluation for hypertension. Some time later it transpired that …

There is increasing awareness of the need for effective communication in health care,
particularly with people who face a frightening diagnosis and an uncertain future for …

In most Western countries healthcare systems are changing; political and economic forces
are behind the growth of profit driven medicine, managed care, and an increasingly …

EDITOR—As in the United Kingdom, patients in Guinea consider communication with health
professionals important. 1 2 Unfortunately, in developing countries, biomedicine is the …