Communicating with Today's Patient: Essentials to Save Time, Decrease Risk, and Increase Patient Compliance (Jossey-Bass Health Care Series) - Softcover

Desmond, Joanne; Copeland, Lanny R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787947970 ISBN 13: 9780787947972

Verlag: Jossey-Bass, 2000

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Drawing on the author's wealth of experience in health care communications and backed up by solid research, Communicating with Today's Patient is filled with proven techniques and time-tested strategies physicians and other clinicians can immediately put into action.

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JOANNE DESMOND is president of Desmond Medical Communications and an international health care communications speaker and author.

LANNY R. COPELAND is past President and Chair of the Board of the American Academy of Family Physicians, as well as vice president of Primary Care Development at Phoebe Putney Health Systems in Albany, Georgia.

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Step-by-step solutions to improve patient interactions and increase your professional satisfaction

Drawing on the authors' wealth of experience in health care communications and backed up by solid research, Communicating with Today's Patient is filled with proven techniques and time-tested strategies physicians and other clinicians can immediately put into action.

"Superbly practical. Each chapter contains pearls you can use today. Explores the important role poor communication plays in treatment failure. . . .Give[s] us practical ways to avoid misdiagnosis and improve compliance."
―Kirk Strawn, M.D., director, Population Health Management, CIGNA HealthCare

"This book's concise, direct approach will enable physicians to communicate more effectively and efficiently with their patients-a must in today's managed care dominated healthcare environment."
―Elizabeth M. Gallup, M.D., J.D., M.B.A., president, executive vice president, New Century Health, IPA

"Having spent the last thirty years defending physicians and hospitals in medical malpractice cases, I say without hesitation that this book is a 'must read' for today's overworked and overstressed physician."
―Maurice J. Garvey, J.D., defense malpractice attorney

"This stimulating guide presents old and new ways of communicating with patients, essential learning and relearning for all practitioners."
―John D. Stoeckle, M.D., primary care physician, Massachusetts General Hospital and professor emeritus, Harvard Medical School

"The only book that applies the medical model to communication techniques. . . .This book will help physicians, nurses, indeed, all clinicians, communicate more efficiently with patients-and with everyone else in their lives, too!"
―Margaret G. McMahon,[R.N. etc need this info] training manager, CIGNA University

"This handbook breaks through the friction and fog in so much health mis-communication. . . . The book gives us tools, good tips, and common sense. Desmond and Copeland don't waste your time, but alert you to listening skills, the vocal cues, the body language of the patient."
―Brent Baker, dean and professor of communication, Boston University

"As a resource, this book can be used time and again for doctors who struggle with the many challenges that prevent connecting with a patient, and in turn impede the healing process."
―Marilyn K. Yager, executive director, The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center

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Step-by-step solutions to improve patient interactions and increase your professional satisfactionDrawing on the authors' wealth of experience in health care communications and backed up by solid research, Communicating with Today's Patient is filled with proven techniques and time-tested strategies physicians and other clinicians can immediately put into action. This activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 6 Prescribed credit hours by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Term of approval is for one year from beginning distribution date of October 1, 2000 with option to request yearly renewal.

"Superbly practical. Each chapter contains pearls you can use today. Explores the important role poor communication plays in treatment failure. . . .Give[s] us practical ways to avoid misdiagnosis and improve compliance."
―Kirk Strawn, M.D., director, Population Health Management, CIGNA HealthCare

"This book's concise, direct approach will enable physicians to communicate more effectively and efficiently with their patients-a must in today's managed care dominated healthcare environment."
―Elizabeth M. Gallup, M.D., J.D., M.B.A., president, executive vice president, New Century Health, IPA

"Having spent the last thirty years defAnding physicians and hospitals in medical malpractice cases, I say without hesitation that this book is a 'must read' for today's overworked and overstressed physician."
―Maurice J. Garvey, J.D., defense malpractice attorney

"This stimulating guide presents old and new ways of communicating with patients, essential learning and relearning for all practitioners."
―John D. Stoeckle, M.D., primary care physician, Massachusetts General Hospital and professor emeritus, Harvard Medical School

"The only book that applies the medical model to communication techniques. . . .This book will help physicians, nurses, indeed, all clinicians, communicate more efficiently with patients-and with everyone else in their lives, too!"
―Margaret G. McMahon

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0787947970
• ISBN 13: 9780787947972
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Wiley-VCH GmbH; product_safety@wiley.com; ; Boschstrasse 12; Weinheim; 69469; Deutschland