How Can Clinical Communication Skills Improve Patient-Physician Relationship Building?

Clinical Communication Skills

  • Afshin Borhani-Haghighi 1 Clinical Neurology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, 2 Department of Neurology, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia, 3 Hunter Medical Research Institute and the University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31661/gmj.v11i.2480
Keywords: Clinical Communication Skills, Patients, Physicians; Empathy, Informed Consent

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Published
2022-08-16
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Borhani-Haghighi, A. (2022). How Can Clinical Communication Skills Improve Patient-Physician Relationship Building? Clinical Communication Skills. Galen Medical Journal, 11, e2480. https://doi.org/10.31661/gmj.v11i.2480
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