Overview
Today patient-physician relationships are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the communication of scientific information to citizens. This ""new medical conversation"" places on all of us - media, scientists, doctors and patients - new obligations for clearer communication than ever before. In ""The New Medical Conversation"", Dennis Mazur introduces and argues for better communication practice in the doctor-patient relationship during an era of changing technology, media and consumer awareness. Dr. Mazur lays out the terrain, the approaches and the strategies to best identify and understand what the problems are in risk communication in medicine and how to begin to solve them. Dr. Mazur gives special attention to the short information message - seen, heard and read by millions of people each day - designed to communicate aspects of scientific information to the patient and consumer. He draws the reader's attention to the design problems in these messages and then takes the reader into a far-reaching journey into the design and development of decision support systems as well as the practical, legal and ethical obligations of practitioners in a changing world. The society that Dr. Mazur envisions is one in which everyone has an opportunity to understand the information that is going in both individual and societal decision making in medical-health care arenas, to understand how to interpret the communications that contain clear and precise terms, and to understand how to identify and approach ambiguous messages.
Full Product Details
Author: Dennis J. Mazur
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.413kg
ISBN: 9780742520288
ISBN 10: 0742520285
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 10 December 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
The New Medical Conversation succinctly and effectively brings together a range of relevant perspectives. It outlines the tensions and opportunities that exist for physicians who seek to discuss risk matters effectively with their patients. It explores the current contexts of patient safety, individual rights to treatments or information, the legal requirements of informed consent, the ethical perspectives and the constraints on patients and professionals in seeking to achieve greater shared understanding about treatments and care choices. Mazur explores the way physicians can effectively discuss relevant information with their patients, using appropriate 'information messages', being aware of the pitfalls of framing manipulations, and seeking to enhance both global and specific areas of understanding. In so doing Dr Mazur is showing how we can meet the requirements of modern consumerist health care and yet also maintain the essential and supportive qualities of physicians conversing with their patients. --Adrian Edwards, University of Wales College of Medicine, Llanedeyrn Health Center
Dr. Mazur has provided the first thoughtful examination of our responsibilities as physicians in an age when patients are being bombarded with medical information from advertisers and vendors. I hope physicians heed his call to rise to the occasion by asserting the primacy of trust, good science, and one's responsibility to the individual patient. -- Mark Helfand, Oregon Health & Science University
"""The New Medical Conversation succinctly and effectively brings together a range of relevant perspectives. It outlines the tensions and opportunities that exist for physicians who seek to discuss risk matters effectively with their patients. It explores the current contexts of patient safety, individual rights to treatments or information, the legal requirements of informed consent, the ethical perspectives and the constraints on patients and professionals in seeking to achieve greater shared understanding about treatments and care choices. Mazur explores the way physicians can effectively discuss relevant information with their patients, using appropriate 'information messages', being aware of the pitfalls of framing manipulations, and seeking to enhance both global and specific areas of understanding. In so doing Dr Mazur is showing how we can meet the requirements of modern consumerist health care and yet also maintain the essential and supportive qualities of physicians conversing with their patients."" --Adrian Edwards, University of Wales College of Medicine, Llanedeyrn Health Center"
Author Information
Dennis J. Mazur is professor of medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, senior scholar at the Center for Ethics in Health Care, and chairman on the Institutional Review Board at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Portland, Oregon.
