In an era of texting, Twittering, Facebooking and YouTub watching, the medical community is stuck in the past by still relying on fax machines and pagers to communicate. Looking to pull the medical ...

Most doctors use language that is too complex for their patients to understand, but some have the unique ability to tailor their language to meet their patients’ communication needs and overcome the ...

A UCSF research team has developed a simple tool that can improve the effectiveness of communication between doctors and patients about prescribed medications and result in dramatic improvements in ...

In my March 7th blog post, I noted that in certain patients, more explanatory effort by the treating doctor is required. This relates to several factors, the most likely of which are that certain ...

On average, a patient gets to speak for about 18 seconds before their physician interrupts, but surveys indicate they would talk for 150 seconds if uninterrupted. “This is the average. It’s worse if ...

A hospital-wide communication training program, outlining best practices for doctors to follow in interactions with patients, improved patients' perception of doctor communication by 9 percent, ...

A computer analysis of hundreds of thousands of secure email messages between doctors and patients found that most doctors use language that is too complex for their patients to understand. The study ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A short waiting room exercise encouraging African American patients to reflect on their personal values helped improve communication between the patients and their white ...

In an effort to encourage communication between smokers and their doctors regarding quitting, the CDC has launched a new campaign called “Talk With Your Doctor.” In partnership with the American ...

Black patients with high blood pressure experience poorer communication with their doctors than white patients do, a study has found. Black patients with high blood pressure experience poorer ...

In my last blog – Part II of this series - I discussed relevant issues in a generic way, arbitrarily stating that the end point of real communication is patient comprehension; anything less is ...