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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960662403321

Autore

Korsch Barbara M

Titolo

The intelligent patient's guide to the doctor-patient relationship : learning how to talk so your doctor will listen / / Barbara M. Korsch & Caroline Harding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998, c1997

ISBN

0-19-770731-9

1-280-47183-2

0-19-802629-3

9786610471836

1-4237-3708-3

1-60256-335-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

HardingCaroline

Disciplina

610.69/6

Soggetti

Physician and patient

Consumer education

Interpersonal communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint. Originally published: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- POINT COUNTERPOINT: Listening to Both Sides -- SO, WHAT DID THE DOCTOR SAY? -- WHAT WENT WRONG?: Derailed Encounters -- WHY DON'T I FOLLOW MY DOCTOR'S ADVICE? -- WHERE IS THE TRUTH?: Secrets and Lies in the Doctor-Patient Relationship -- DOES YOUR DOCTOR SEEM UNFEELING? -- HOW DO DOCTORS GET THAT WAY?: The Conspiracy of Silence -- DO I HAVE TO GO TO THE DOCTOR? -- WHEN YOUR CHILD IS SICK -- THE HOSPITAL -- GETTING THE MOST OUT OF MANAGED CARE -- NOTES -- SELECTED READINGS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

The authors of this commonsense guide to patient/physician commuications believe that only through a good relationship between patient and doctor can health delivery be improved.