Communication Skills for Medical Professionals by Mark Jerome Walters

Communication Skills for Medical Professionals by Mark Jerome Walters

As a physician, nurse, veterinarian, dentist, or other health professional, you constantly face the challenge of describing complex ideas or delivering difficult information to laypeople. Whether this involves conveying the risk of a drug or the complexities of a procedure, or simply trying to elicit basic information from a client or patient, this book is designed to help. Concise, practical, and highly accessible, Communication Skills for Medical Professionals offers numerous insights and recommendations on how to establish rapport; overcome the barrier of feelings about unequal power and status in order to make good conversation possible; break down complex ideas into simple, digestible units; discuss risk; and strengthen listening skills. Rich in practical examples, Communication Skills for Medical Professionals is a concise guide to communicating more effectively with laypeople and with your professional peers.

A Shadow and a Song, Six Modern Plagues, and Seeking the Holy Raven are written by Mark Jerome Walters, a professional journalist and veterinarian. The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Nature, and a number of other professional and popular periodicals have complimented his work. Dr. Walters is the M.A. program's director. at the University of South Florida in Digital Journalism and Design. He's lectured at Harvard Medical School and worked as an associate at Harvard's Center for Health and the Global Environment.

He gives a lot of talks about how to communicate science to the general audience. Dr. Walters has been to Africa, Asia, South America, Europe, Canada, and all fifty states for his reporting and writing. He graduated from McGill University with a bachelor's degree in English literature, a master's degree from Columbia University School of Journalism, and a D.V.M. Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine is a veterinary school located in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Walters is a 5-string banjo player who enjoys bluegrass music.

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ISBN 13	9780615333960
ISBN 10	0615333966
Title	Communication Skills for Medical Professionals
Author	Mark Jerome Walters
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Walters and Worth, LLC
Year published	2010-09-30
Number of pages	142
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