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Title: Communication Skills for Medical Professionals : A concise guide to simple, clear and effective Communication
Publisher: Walters & Worth, LLC
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0615333966
ISBN 13: 9780615333960
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 0.372 pounds

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As a physician, nurse, veterinarian, dentist, or other health professional, you constantly face the challenge of describing complex ideas or delivering difficult information to laypeople. Whether this involves conveying the risk of a drug or the complexities of a procedure, or simply trying to elicit basic information from a client or patient, this book is designed to help. Concise, practical, and highly accessible, Communication Skills for Medical Professionals offers numerous insights and recommendations on how to establish rapport; overcome the barrier of feelings about unequal power and status in order to make good conversation possible; break down complex ideas into simple, digestible units; discuss risk; and strengthen listening skills. Rich in practical examples, Communication Skills for Medical Professionals is a concise guide to communicating more effectively with laypeople and with your professional peers.

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Mark Jerome Walters is a veterinarian, a journalist, and a professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is the author of five books. His writing has been favorably reviewed in the New York Times, Nature, The New York Review of Books, and numerous other scholarly and popular publications. Dr. Walters speaks frequently on the subject of communication. He received his bachelor's degree in English literature from McGill University, his master's in journalism from Columbia University, and his doctorate in veterinary medicine from Tufts University.

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