A new framework is proposed for analysing the consultation in primary care, and for integrating other models relevant to the consultation. Use of communication skills helps to reconcile the respective agendas of doctor and patient into a negotiated plan, which includes both management of problems and health promotion. Achieving the potential of consultations depends on cooperation between patie...

Introduction. Patient-oriented communicative interaction in medicine is studied various sciences, however, teaching appropriate communication a medical university impossible without taking into account its verbal specifics due to the high linguistic activity of profession. skills should be systematically formed linguo-professional training, which disciplines and topics require clarification. Th...

BACKGROUND Power in doctor-patient relationships is asymmetrically distributed. The doctor holds resources the patient needs and has a mandate to promote healthy living. Power may benefit or harm the patients' health, and the doctor-patient relationship. AIM To identify aspects of power and powerlessness in GPs' narratives about lifestyle counselling. DESIGN AND SETTING A qualitative study ...

The Chinese Medical Doctor's Association asked us to develop a train-the-trainers program in doctor-patient communication and in teaching skills for a select group of Chinese health care professionals, who would then serve as trainers for practicing physicians throughout China. The request came in the context of increasing doctor-patient friction related, in part, to the dissolution of the soci...