What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear M.D. Danielle OfriPaperback
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear M.D. Danielle OfriPaperback Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?Despite modern medicine's infatuation with…
Specifikacia What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear M.D. Danielle OfriPaperback
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear M.D. Danielle OfriPaperback
Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?Despite modern medicine's infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion's share of illnesses. Doctors, under pressure to be efficient, multitask while patients speak and often miss the key elements. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two vastly different things.Patients, anxious to convey their symptoms, feel an urgency to "make their case" to their doctors.
Danielle Ofri proves that it doesn't have to be. Add in stereotypes, unconscious bias, conflicting agendas, and fear of lawsuits and the risk of misdiagnosis and medical errors multiplies dangerously.Though the gulf between what patients say and what doctors hear is often wide, Dr. Through the powerfully