Customer Reviews

Health Professional and Patient Interaction

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I used this book for my recent healthcare communications class. While the information contained within the book was quite informative, the text itself was not well written. There were large numbers of run-on sentences and I even spotted the word 'reckon' within the text. The word 'reckon' should never be included in formal writing. In fact, the only appropriate place for the word 'reckon' is as a quote, either in fictional dialogue or as a quote of a real person. The poor writing forces the reader to glean the information from the text, hampering the ability of the reader to gain much from reading it. I hope the publisher and/or authors deal with this in future editions. It could be a great textbook once these issues are addressed.

This is a good, balanced textbook for anyone needing a detailed source anayzing the doctor or nurse and patient interaction.
Strengths: Balanced, objective, good references, non-critical.
Weaknesses: Long, sometimes states the obvious, choppy theoretical discussions.

She is wonderful. I bought a book and she also sent me an e-mail and let me know she just sent the book out and how long I should expect to receive. very informative and appreciate it.

Book is mostly about respect, but it looks that the authors need to develop a new aspect of self-respect: to say the same they wanted to in fewer words, probably 1/20 from the written amount. The book is very hard to read, it seems to be a poor translation from another language. Sometimes in the end of long sentence you see that they already have forgotten what was in the beginning. Nevertheless, when you finally dig out a thought from the pile of word litter, it might be an interesting one.

This book is very insightful, to the point, a very easy read. I am a very busy person so being able to just sit down and read this book was a delightful experience!