Patients, anxious to convey their symptoms, feel an urgency to "make their case" to their doctors. Doctors, under pressure to be efficient, multitask while patients speak and often miss key elements. Add in stereotypes, unconscious bias, conflicting agendas, and fear of lawsuits - and the risk of misdiagnosis and medical errors multiplies dangerously. Reporting on research studies and interviewing scholars, doctors, and patients, the author reveals how better communication can lead to better health for all of us.--adapted from jacket.
Dimensions:18 x 216
Author: Danielle Ofri MD
ISBN: 9780807087497
Format: paperback
Pages 248