The art of medicine: Valuing communication

[...] Gorgias must have his day. The anxiety of many researchers is still directed at content and they hope that they will not have to waste much research time to gain these needed communication skills.\n Collected sayings and views, the Aphorisms, add up to what Ludwick Fleck called vademecum knowl...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 373; no. 9681; p. 2104
Main Author Leach, Joan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Elsevier Limited 20.06.2009
Subjects
Communication
Medical research
Patients
Physicians
Studies
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Summary:[...] Gorgias must have his day. The anxiety of many researchers is still directed at content and they hope that they will not have to waste much research time to gain these needed communication skills.\n Collected sayings and views, the Aphorisms, add up to what Ludwick Fleck called vademecum knowledge, the consensual beliefs and attitudes of a field that might be best referred to as "handbook knowledge".
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61139-9