Presently, there are very few formal communication skills assessment exams required of those in the medical field. ... We feel strongly about organizing a service to train medical personnel in the method or technique of sympathizing with a desperate, anxious human being who may feel that they are at the end of their life. ... If results show what we have proposed, and there is a real need for further training in the area of doctor/patient communication, perhaps a middle ground can be established. ... Their business would explode on word of mouth alone, because face it, when your good at what ...

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While physician and other profession/provider buy-in is crucial to an equitable system and certainly to good quality of care, the consistent focus has been on the identified person. ... The notion that denial of care or benefits can be justified for the common good underlies much of the current utilitarian calculus of managed care, population-based medicine. ...

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