Vital Conversations - Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients

A prescription for healing the broken relationship at the heart of American health care.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Author's Note
1. Better Outcomes, Lower Costs
2. One Size Does Not Fit All
3. When Worlds Collide
4. Disease, Illness, and Sickness
5. Body and Soul
6. Reconciling Different Worldviews
7. Making It Stick
8. Putting It All Together: Creating a Better Clinical Encounter
Notes
Index

About the author

Dennis Rosen, MD

Summary

A prescription for healing the broken relationship at the heart of American health care.

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Rosen, Rosen Dennis
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.2014
• EAN: 9780231164443
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16444-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Physician & Patient, MEDICAL / Hospital Administration & Care, Doctor / patient relationship