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As a senior medical student, Andrew Mills watched his teacher, an intensive care physician, talk with the family of a 20-year-old man who had tried to hang himself. Dr. Ralph Levitt, clinical ...

With growing attention to the role of physician empathy in patient care, a number of programs have popped up around the country aimed at enhancing doctors' communication skills. Despite the purported ...

A computer analysis of hundreds of thousands of secure email messages between doctors and patients found that most doctors use language that is too complex for their patients to understand. The study ...

ABVIMS and Dr. RML Hospital launched a soft skills programme to train residents in communication, empathy, and conflict ...

Even the most compassionate doctors can say things that unintentionally wound the patients they’re trying to help. A ...

A new program created between Banner Health and the Hearts and Horses program is teaching local physicians a new way to think about leadership and communication, coming straight from the horse’s mouth ...

Assertiveness -- a communication style that involves frank self-expression while respecting others -- is considered a teachable skill and has been regarded as useful in improving the safety of medical ...

On the first day of his residency, Taimur Safder, M.D., had a patient who was admitted for chest pain after walking his dog. But Safder was perplexed when his attending physician asked him if he knew ...

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The patient, a petite woman in her late forties with short dark hair, was visibly tense as she sat in front of the doctor, clutching her purse and sighing deeply. Lyudmila had made the appointment ...