"Etiquette-Based Medicine" (Michael W. Kahn), 2008

[MSEsperanza]

"The Six Habits of Highly Respectful Physicians" by Michael W. Kahn
New York Times, DEC. 1, 2008

Not "News", yet still deserves attention IMO.The author is one of the few psychiatrists who signed Vincent Racaniello's / David Tuller's Open letter to the Lancet*
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/health/02etiq.html

[edited:] The article in The New England Journal of Medicine
(N Engl J Med 2008; 358:1988-1989, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp0801863 )

* http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/19/trial-by-error-an-open-letter-to-the-lancet-two-years-on/

 

[Sean]

Nice.

 

[Skycloud]

Yes!

 

[MSEsperanza]

I felt the urge to bump this after seeing Clare Gerada's aka Lady Wessely's (chairperson of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners from 2010 to 2013) arrogance and lack of empathy towards patients (see her tweets linked here: https://www.s4me.info/threads/cochr...temporarily-withdrawn.6225/page-9#post-113097 )