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Patient Communication Techniques - Healthcare Professionals

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So how do you inform oreducate patients?• When you are pretty sure you have the rightdiagnosis (what the real problem is)• After you have expressed yourunderstanding of the patient’s perspective– “It sounds like your life just got so stressful for atime that you just didn’t have time to take yourmedications. It just fell to the bottom of yourpriority list”

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