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Please Don't Break My Other Leg! is a guide to improving communication between health care professionals and patients. Valerie Mirvis breathes new life into the teaching of empathic skills by writing in an engaging and moving style and by including genuine case histories, controversial scientific research, imagery, literary quotations and Rikki Marr's specially commissioned illustrations.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 The Mirror and the Pinhole Chapter 5 It Takes Two to Tango Chapter 6 Nature and/or Nurture? Chapter 7 Nurture and Know-how Chapter 8 Please Don't Break My Other Leg! Chapter 9 Do We Have the Green Light? Chapter 10 Bedside Manners Chapter 11 Einstein's Other Theory of Relativity Chapter 12 Play it by Ear Chapter 13 Body Language Chapter 14 I Cannot See for Looking Chapter 15 Hearing Aid Chapter 16 Funny Ha Ha Chapter 17 Direct Your Heart to Heaven Chapter 18 The Pen is Mightier than the Sword Chapter 19 The Reluctant Visitor Chapter 20 Puppet on a String Chapter 21 A Spoonful of Advice Chapter 22 Empathic Patients Chapter 23 Notes Chapter 24 About the Author and Illustrator
About the author
Valerie Mirvis is a Social Worker in Jewish Care's North West London Area Team. She has received the rare honor of becoming the first person without medical qualifications to be elected to the Council of the London Jewish Medical Society.
