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Patient-Centred Medicine in Transition: The Heart of the Matter

By Alan Bleakley (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2014
ISBN
978-3-319-02486-8, 978-3-319-02487-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-02487-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1565605 bytes)
Series
Advances in Medical Education 3
Edition
1
Pages
267\271
Time added
2014-02-12 18:00:00
Medical Education

Description

This book challenges functional models for more aesthetic and ethical models, where communication is grounded in values systems of cultures. Here, communication is treated as a distributed phenomenon involving networks of persons, activities and artifacts, and extends beyond doctor-patient relationships to working in and across teams around patients. The purpose of the book is to stimulate thinking about how patient care and safety may be improved through a focus upon the ‘non-technical’ work of doctors – interpersonal communication, teamwork and situation awareness in teams. The focus is then not on the personality of the doctor, but on the dynamics of relationships which form doctors’ multiple identities.

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