Personality Traits Influencing Effective Communication in Clinical Practice.

In clinical practice, a communication between a doctor and his/her patient could be an interesting observation. Individual personality can significantly influence the interpersonal communication and its outcome during such interaction. Human behaviors could be likened to the acids and bases in organic chemistry. While extremes of pH prove to be corrosive and caustic respectively, neutral pH is the most ideal situation for ensuring homeostasis. Accordingly, it is easy to imagine what happens when two people with highly acidic or highly alkaline personalities interact. To salvage such situations, we would ideally need an alkaline buffer to interact with a strong acid, and vice-versa.