Communication Skills for Doctors: A Guide for Effective Communication with Patients and Families
By Peter Maguire.
Description
Aimed at senior medical students and doctors in training, the key objective of this book is to help them become more competent in dealing with common areas of communication which many find particuarly difficult. The author covers the main areas where communication takes place and the difficult scenarios students/doctors are likely to encounter, providing practical (and alternative) guidelines to cover a broad range of situations.Beginning with a review of basic communication skills, the text includes doctor/patient interchanges taken from the author's own work experience. These feature...
ISBN(s)
034066309X, 9780340663097
