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Therapy of ‘the word’: New goals in teaching communication skills

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, University of Auckland, Ackland, New Zealand

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Editor's Introduction The analysis of health care is now taught across the globe, but it is by no means a clearly defined activity. The teaching of analytical skills to health workers takes many different forms, and is done in widely divergent institutions and cultures. Teaching communication skills has been one of the most successful means of fostering nonclinical analytical thinking in medical students. Below, in an article all the more powerful for its subtlety, Dr. Valerie Grant shows how good communication is also good medicine.

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Grant, V.J. Therapy of ‘the word’: New goals in teaching communication skills. Health Care Anal 3, 71–74 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02197197

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