Prescriptive Communication for the Healthcare Provider
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This book is a “must read” for anyone interested in the breakdown in communication that exists in today’s healthcare. Every aspect of healthcare depends upon how well its members communicate with one another. Between these pages, readers will discover a collection of typical and atypical issues confronting the healthcare provider. Addressed are topics such as waiting room anxiety, accent reduction, medical interpreters, appellations, testing frenzies, and a number of very provocative nonverbal pitfalls.. Since the book title intentionally uses the word “prescriptive” it should be taken to be a prescription for every healthcare provider and filled at their individual cerebral pharmacy.
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About the Book
Professor Eisenberg's primary objective is to help patients and their healthcare providers communicate with one another more effectively. When they fail to communicate, it often negates or compromises the benefit they seek to derive from their treatment. Aside from addressing the conventional issues that currently bog down healthcare communication, he exploits some less typical issues such as pseudoaffective communication, somatotyping, appellations, clinical musicology, genderlect, and territoriality. Healthcare providers reading this book should come away with an expanded and more inclusive perspective on how practitioners can enrich their interpersonal skills.
About the Author
Professor Eisenberg was born in New York City, and served in the U.S. Marine Corps in WW II. His career consisted of teaching interpersonal/intercultural communication, public speaking, organizational communication, nonverbal comunication, group dynamics, and persuasion at four major universities. His publications include fifteen textbooks on various aspects of communication. He has a relentless reputation of asking his students and, often perfect strangers, thought-provoking questions. One of his earlier books was titled,"Questions that Challenge the Curious Mind." It consisted of 79 choice questions. After each question, he would briefly describe how various people answered it His favorite question is, "What one word best describes your entire life?" He presently resides with his beautiful and multi-talented wife, Marianna, a former operatic star with the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center. His zodiac sign is Scorpio and his favorite