This is a brief summary of a study published in the latest IJOM, on the important and in-vogue subject of how patients with low back pain interpret what we say, and in turn, how that affects them. ‘Talking a different language’: a qualitative study of chronic low back pain patients’ interpretation of the language used…
I don’t think we studied “listening skills” at college, and I’ve never been on a course specifically addressed to this, but I never thought that mattered because I thought I was pretty good at it. Always interested in a patient’s life, always letting them talk and murmuring encouragement and validation; I thought I had it…
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