Chapter 50
‘Trust me, I’m a doctor’
‘The devil has put a penalty in all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health, or we suffer in soul, or we get fat.’
Albert Einstein
There’s much we can learn from experiences with doctors, physicians and health care professionals. Medicine has its own language but, aside from that, there are other communication problems. The following will serve as a reminder of how some of the things that some doctors don’t do well – on the interpersonal skills front – can remind us how we should strive to deal with people whom we are involved with in our personal and working lives.
How often is your talk littered with words and jargon that cause confusion?
And how intuitive are you in picking up the ‘listening’ ...
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