Dr. Judith Orloff MDIt may sometimes be awkward to set healthy boundaries with negative or draining people, but it is an important skill to learn. If someone has unrealistic expectations of you or unable to respect your feelings remember “No” is a complete...
Wendy StrgarI have many friends who not only rarely sleep with their husbands, they can’t even talk about it. I would go even further and suggest that most of their conversations probably move them further away from intimacy than towards it. Connecting with our...
What Doctors Don't Tell YouDoctors who don’t listen and don’t communicate effectively may end up with no patients, say researchers at Harvard.
HOW TO TREAT THE PATIENT: Study notes for your doctor
SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD. Especially when it's a doctor try
A new, breakthrough study has discovered that doctors are human. As a result, they naturally view most of their patients as 'foolish, uncomprehending, hysterical or malingering'.
John W Travis MD MPHSince most of us spend more than half of our time in communication as a listener, we should be experts at it by now. If you are, though, you are the rare exception. Most people listen passively, planning what they are going to say next, or they...
