Spoken language is the most important diagnostic and therapeutic tool in medicine, and, according to Dr. Cassell, "we must be as precise with it as a surgeon wi
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More than a million patient safety incidents occur every year, and medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Illuminating the expe
In the twelve years since the first edition of Talking With Patients was published, contributions from relational psychoanalysis and from neuroscience have been