Improving Clinical Communication: A Clinician's Guide to Building Better Skills and Patient Outcomes

This is a book about medical communication. Communication is a skill, as such it is learnable and can be refined. Between what we learn in college and clinical practice there is a gap regarding communication with patients and their families that many health professionals want to fill. Thus, the goal of this book is to encourage readers to develop their communication skills in patient care.

Chapters cover the possible therapeutic origin of the human word, the placebo effect of the medical w...