5 Questions: Dean Pizzo on doctor-patient communication

For all the technological advances that enable today’s physicians to get a better view of what’s going on inside their patients, many neglect one key source of insight — direct and engaged conversation. Philip Pizzo, MD, dean of the School of Medicine, wants doctors to improve physician-patient communication as a way to better “fuse the art and science of medicine.” Pizzo wrote about the topic in a commentary published May 4 in the Journal of the American Medical Association and co-authored by Wendy Levinson, MD, professor and chair of medicine at the University of Toronto. He discussed the obstacles and possible solutions to better physician-patient communication with Inside Stanford Medicine writer Susan Ipaktchian.

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