This is the first book written specifically to help patients talk to their doctors. Requiring no special background for understanding, it is designed to improve communication between patient and doctor, which, as the authors explain, is good for our health.Combining hard data with Dr. Jones’ 10 years of experience in medicine, Jones and Phillips seek to enhance communication by clarifying the doctor/patient relationship. The result is a practical, step-by-step guide that features multiple checklists and specific instructions to help patients get the best possible medical care for their money.This book tells how fees are set and deals with situations ranging from buying insurance to preparing for a hospital visit. But mostly it is about relationships, about doctors and patients; it shows how to ask questions, how to open lines of communication that will provide the knowledge and the ability to form realistic expectations concerning what a doctor can and cannot do.

Communicating with Your Doctor: Rx for Good Medical Care

Medical Books

Jones M.D., Dr. J. Alfred

Phillips B.A. M.A. Ph.D., Professor Gerald M.

Medicine

Southern Illinois University Press

Gerald M. Phillips draws on his twenty-five-year, five-thousand-client experience with the Pennsylvania State University Reticence Program to present a new theory of modification of inept” communication behavior.
That experience has convinced Phillips that communication is arbitrary and rulebound rather than a process of inspiration. He demonstrates that communication problems can be described as errors that can be detected and classified in order to fit a remediation pattern. Regardless of the source of error, the remedy is to train the individual to avoid or eliminate errorsthus, orderly procedure will result in competent performance.
Inept communicators must be made aware of the obligations and constraints imposed by deep structures that require us to achieve a degree of formal order in our language, without which our discourse becomes incomprehensible.

Communication Incompetencies: A Theory of Training Oral Performance Behavior

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The essays and their authors are: "Speech Communication after 75 Years: Issues and Prospects" by Dennis S. Gouran; "Constituted by Agency: The Discourse and Practice of Rhetorical Criticism" by Sonja Foss; "Contemporary Developments in Rhetorical Criticism: A Consideration of the Effects of Rhetoric" by Richard A. Cherwitz and John Theobald-Osborne; "Tradition and Resurgence in Public Address Studies" by Robert S. Iltis and Stephen H. Browne; "Communication Competence" by Rebecca B. Rubin; "Interpersonal Communication Research: What Should We Know?" by Dean E. Hewes, Michael E. Roloff, Sally Planalp, and David R. Seibold; "Research in Interpretation and Performance Studies: Trends, Issues and Priorities" by Mary S. Strine, Beverly Long, and Mary Frances Hopkins; "Communication Technology and Society" by Stuart J. Kaplan; "Legal Constraints on Communication" by Peter E. Kane; "A Cultural Inquiry Concerning the Ontological and Epistemic Dimensions of Self, Other, and Context in Communication Scholarship" by H. Lloyd Goodall, Jr.; "Health Communication and Interpersonal Competence" by Gary Kreps and Jim Query, Jr.; and "What Doth the Future Hold?" by Carroll C. Arnold.

Speech Communication: Essays to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of The Speech Communication Association

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

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