The Total Package: A Skillful, Compassionate Doctor

Monday, January 26, 2009 - 00:42 in Health & Medicine

Patients and their families want physicians who are gifted in diagnosis and treatment and who are caring individuals with the interpersonal skills needed to communicate complex information in stressful circumstances. A new study shows training physicians to be humanistic is feasible and produces measurably better communicators.

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