Bogdan-Lovis and Holmes-Rovner [1] make a compelling case for using frugal default options to help patients and doctors make decisions, while also reducing health care costs, in situations defined by medical equipoise (reference). Their proposal is that in medical conditions in which the available treatment options do not differ in their clinically effectiveness (e.g. result in equivalent survi...

PURPOSE Communication is a core clinical skill that can be taught and learned. The authors intended to develop a patient-doctor communication model for teaching and assessing undergraduate medical students in Korea. METHODS To develop a model, literature reviews and an iterative process of discussion between faculty members of a communication skills course for second year medical students wer...

Interactive Media can be efficient tools to support patient-doctor communication, yet their development costs make them available for use in institutional communication only. We suggest that Interactive Narratives, whose content is generative by nature, can address this issue by helping to visualise specific data. Using interactive narrative technologies that we have developed over the past 10 ...

Communication can be seen as the main ingredient in medical care. In reviewing doctor-patient communication, the following topics are addressed: (1) different purposes of medical communication; (2) analysis of doctor-patient communication; (3) specific communicative behaviors; (4) the influence of communicative behaviors on patient outcomes; and (5) concluding remarks. Three different purposes ...

he awareness of the importance of health literacy has synergistically combined with concerns regarding disparities in access to care, questions relative to patients rights, and the growth of consumerism to initiate a reevaluation of how the various health professions communicate with their patients on a daily basis. Practitioners are beginning to examine not only how they communicate but how we...

Barriers frequently develop in physician-patient encounters. If they go unrecognized, they can severely limit the therapeutic potential of the doctor-patient relationship. Because barriers are not always explicit, a strategy is presented for recognizing implicit signs such as verbal-nonverbal mismatch, cognitive dissonance, unexpected resistance, and physician discomfort. Once a potential barri...

Current videoconferencing technology has allowed for the development, acceptance and growth of telepsychiatry programs in Canada and in other countries. Questions and concerns remain about the effect of the videoconferencing context on doctor–patient communication. This paper briefly reviews factors relevant to this issue and presents two case histories that involve challenges for both telepsyc...