The relief of communication

• 作者: William G Pickering
• 来源期刊: 英国医学杂志：中文版(BMJ)
• 学科: 医学
• 年，卷（期）: ygyxzzzwb_2006,（5）
• 页码范围: 319
• 页数: 1页
• 分类号: R

摘要

<正> Even in the best of medical hands communication can beincomplete.Some time ago an acquaintance,knowing I wasmedical,told me that she had discovered a problem in her breastand had made an appointment to see the general practitioner.She added that she had been aware of it for some months,andasked if I thought she had been silly to wait,to which I repliedevasively that I was pleased she was now seeing someone aboutit.This was the first of many questions she had for me.Her“very nice”GP,of whom she had apparently asked