1st Edition

Language and Clinical Communication This Bright Babylon

By John Skelton, Dominic Greenyer Copyright 2008
176 Pages
by CRC Press

176 Pages
by CRC Press

The search for a set of skills which can be identified and taught as 'good clinical communication' has been of considerable value in persuading decision makers at medical schools and other bodies that communication matters. These days, very large numbers of medical schools use what are essentially skills-based models, such as the extraordinarily thorough Calgary-Cambridge approach. However, I... Read more
The ambiguous inheritance. Rhetoric and the discourse community. Two ways of looking at ambiguity. An old debate. Remediation and referrals. The commissar and the connoisseur.

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John Skelton, Dominic Greenyer