Communication among doctors when making diagnoses, when communicating information to the patient, and when evaluating a doctor's own satisfactions and frustrations in terms of practicing medicine is shown to be crucial to any definition of good medicine. The wide range of literature in English on the topic of doctors and good communication suggests that a focus on its importance could be a tool...

BACKGROUND Doctor-patient communication is an essential component of general practice. Improvement of GPs' communication patterns is an important target of training programmes. Available studies have so far failed to provide conclusive evidence of the effectiveness of educational interventions to improve doctor-patient communication. AIM To examine the effectiveness of a learner-centred appro...

BACKGROUND The doctor-patient relationship has been eroded by many factors. Would e-mail enhance communication and address some of the barriers inherent to our medical practices? METHODS Of our study population, 4 physicians offered e-mail communication to participating patients and 4 did not. Both patients and physicians completed questionnaires regarding satisfaction, perceived quality, con...

The implementation of surgical consent has shifted from simply getting a signature to focus on doctor-patient communication. Providing adequate information is very important for patients in making decisions so that do not feel forced agree. Good understanding required before patient gives consent, but many have difficulty and doctors fail provide correct information. aim this scoping review inv...

The digital revolution will have a profound impact on how physicians and health care delivery organizations interact with patients and the community at-large. Over the coming decades, face-to-face patient/doctor contacts will become less common and exchanges between consumers and providers will increasingly be mediated by electronic devices.In highly developed health care systems like those in ...

Patricia Hughes is a senior lecturer and consultant in psychotherapy at St George’s Hospital Medical School and South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust (St George’s Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, Tel: 0181 725 5521/31; e-mail: [email protected]). She is interested in teaching medical students and in making psychotherapy understandable to psychiatric trainees. Ian Ker...

The headache history is discussed as a model for establishing effective doctor patient communication. A thorough knowledge regarding headache onset, course and current features provides a basis for diagnosis and management. The principles of acceptance, validation, empathy, respect and advocacy are explored.

Studies of doctor-patient communication generally advocate a partnership communication style. However, in Southeast Asian settings, we often see a more one-way style with little input from the patient. We investigated factors underlying the use of a one-way consultation style by doctors in a Southeast Asian setting. We conducted a qualitative study based on principles of grounded theory. Twenty...

INTRODUCTION This paper introduces medical educators to the field of conversation analysis (CA) and its contributions to the understanding of the doctor-patient relationship. THE CONVERSATION ANALYSIS APPROACH Conversation analysis attempts to build bridges both to the ethnographic and the coding and quantitative studies of medical interviews, but examines the medical interview as an arena of...