Tanu Pramanik: Teaching caring and compassionate communication

Work environments that support caring and compassionate communication with patients provide foundations on which high quality, patient centred care can flourish. Nothing tests communication skills so much as breaking bad news. Emotions are often running high for both patient and doctor. Compassionate behavioural skills—using the right words expressed in the right way—can help minimise patient […]

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Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Diffusion + dissemination = promulgation

As I have previously discussed, although the idea of translational research did not start to emerge as such until the 1980s, it had roots in the idea of “diffusion of innovations”, “the process in which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system” as Everett Rogers defined […]

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