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Clinical communication skills for medicine.

By: Lloyd, Margaret, MD [author.].
Contributor(s): Bor, Robert [author.] | Noble, Lorraine M [author.].
Publisher: Amsterdam : Elsevier, ©2019Edition: Fourth edition / Margaret Lloyd, Robert Bor, Lorraine M. Noble.Description: viii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780702072130.Uniform titles: Communication skills for medicine Subject(s): Communication in medicine | Physician and patient | Communication in medicine | Physician and patientGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Preface to the fourth edition p. vii 1. Introduction Margaret Lloyd and Robert Bor and Lorraine Noble p. 1 2. Core skills in clinical communication Margaret Lloyd and Robert Bor and Lorraine Noble p. 9 3. Gathering information Margaret Lloyd and Robert Bor and Lorraine Noble p. 27 4. Discussing sensitive topics Robert Bor and Margaret Lloyd and Lorraine Noble p. 49 5. Sharing information Lorraine Noble and Margaret Lloyd and Robert Bor p. 60 6. Shared decision making Lorraine Noble p. 71 7. Breaking bad news Robert Bor and Margaret Lloyd and Lorraine Noble p. 86 8. Communication (...read more)
Summary: "The contents of the book cover the fundamental elements of clinical communication, including skills for effectively gathering and sharing information, discussing sensitive topics and breaking bad news; shared decision making, reflecting the rapid changes in expectations of medical care and skills for supporting patients in making decisions which are right for them; communicating with a patient’s family, children and young people, patients from different cultural backgrounds, communicating via an interpreter and communicating with patients who have a hearing impairment; diversity in communication, including examples of communicating with patients who have a learning disability, transgender patients, and older adult patients and communicating about medical error, emphasising the importance of doctors being honest in the face of difficult situations." -- Publisher.
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Previous edition: published as Communication skills for medicine. 2009.

Preface to the fourth edition p. vii
1. Introduction Margaret Lloyd and Robert Bor and Lorraine Noble p. 1
2. Core skills in clinical communication Margaret Lloyd and Robert Bor and Lorraine Noble p. 9
3. Gathering information Margaret Lloyd and Robert Bor and Lorraine Noble p. 27
4. Discussing sensitive topics Robert Bor and Margaret Lloyd and Lorraine Noble p. 49
5. Sharing information Lorraine Noble and Margaret Lloyd and Robert Bor p. 60
6. Shared decision making Lorraine Noble p. 71
7. Breaking bad news Robert Bor and Margaret Lloyd and Lorraine Noble p. 86
8. Communication (...read more)

"The contents of the book cover the fundamental elements of clinical communication, including skills for effectively gathering and sharing information, discussing sensitive topics and breaking bad news; shared decision making, reflecting the rapid changes in expectations of medical care and skills for supporting patients in making decisions which are right for them; communicating with a patient’s family, children and young people, patients from different cultural backgrounds, communicating via an interpreter and communicating with patients who have a hearing impairment; diversity in communication, including examples of communicating with patients who have a learning disability, transgender patients, and older adult patients and communicating about medical error, emphasising the importance of doctors being honest in the face of difficult situations." -- Publisher.

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