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Physicians build less rapport with obese patients

OBJECTIVE Physicians' negative attitudes toward patients with obesity are well documented. Whether or how these beliefs may affect patient-physician communication is unknown. To describe the relationship between patient body mass index (BMI) and physician communication behaviors (biomedical, psychosocial/lifestyle, and rapport building) during typical outpatient primary care visits was aimed. ...

Eating Animals to Build Rapport: Conducting Research

Notions of hospitality, community, and the fostering of rapport and connection are foundational concerns for conducting research across difference. Drawing on methodological literature, this paper considers how access to various communities and “good” data is structured by the notion that in order to develop rapport researchers accept the “food”, specifically “meat” offered by their hosts. When...

Can Virtual Human Build Rapport and Promote Learning?

Research show that teacher’s nonverbal immediacy can have a positive impact on student’s cognitive learning and affect [31]. This paper investigates the effectiveness of nonverbal immediacy using a virtual human. The virtual human attempts to use immediacy feedback to create rapport with the learner. Results show that the virtual human established rapport with learners but did not help them ach...

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Finding a Better Way.

Our patient was Mary (please note that the name has been changed to protect confidentiality). She was a mother to one daughter and 3 sons and a grandmother to 5 young children. She was a sister, a daughter, and a dear friend to many. She was a physical therapist whose patients adored her. We, her daughter and sister, were her caregivers. We experienced Mary’s slow demise firsthand, from October...