Patient communication
Feb. 28, 2017How to break bad news to patients: Experts offer best practices
These communication strategies can help you better serve your patients during difficult moments.
Topic: Communication
Core Competency
June 6, 2014Maintaining a good bedside manner in a world of 15-minute appointments
Using simple strategies to better communicate with patients can actually help shorten appointments, an expert says.
'Go on'
Oct. 1, 2013Empathy in 60 seconds: Practical tips to improve bedside manner
Interested in taking your bedside manner to the next level? An expert shares tips you can start using today.
Art of medicine
June 29, 2011Schools keying on writing, verbal skills to deepen students’ clinical acumen
Along with teaching bedside skills, medical schools recognize the value of writing to spur reflection and understanding in students.
Opinion
May 26, 2010Two openings—one wrong, one right
“Our goal, if we are to be real healers, is to welcome the patient, show interest and show concern—all in that one opening sentence,” Arnold Melnick, DO, writes.
Opinion
July 1, 2009Medicare: Communication or confusion?
Even as a fairly knowledgeable professional, I have great difficulty with the “information” Medicare provides and often do not understand it.