How can Doctors Improve their Communication Skills?

How can Doctors Improve their Communication Skills?

The process of curing a patient requires a holistic approach which involves considerations beyond treating a disease. It warrants several skills in a doctor along with technical expertise. Studies have shown that good communication skill in a doctor improve patient's compliance and overall satisfaction. There are certain basic principles of practicing good communication. Patient listening, empa...

Can communication skills workshops for emergency department doctors improve patient satisfaction?

OBJECTIVE To assess whether the attending of the communication skills workshops by the emergency department doctors improves patient satisfaction and reduces the number of complaints on doctors' attitude. METHOD Standard performas were sent to all emergency departments (EDs) in Hong Kong soliciting their numbers of written complaints on doctors' attitude or communication problems during the n...

How radiology can improve communication with referring physicians HOW RADIOLOGY CAN IMPROVE COMMUNICATION WITH REFERRING PHYSICIANS

How Can Doctors Help Their Patients to Return to Work?

F or most patients, work remains an important part of life. However, patients with chronic diseases often encounter diffi culties upon returning to work after an episode of illness [1]. Helping to reintegrate patients into their workplace should, therefore, be an important treatment goal for every doctor. However, in a recent review of back pain treatment, we found that patients were dissatisfi...

How Virtual Narratives Can Improve Patient-Doctor Communication

Interactive Media can be efficient tools to support patient-doctor communication, yet their development costs make them available for use in institutional communication only. We suggest that Interactive Narratives, whose content is generative by nature, can address this issue by helping to visualise specific data. Using interactive narrative technologies that we have developed over the past 10 ...