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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:1242-1243.

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The article by Wissow et al¹ in the May issue of the ARCHIVES focused on how ethnicity and gender barriers in disclosing psychosocial information dissipate with longitudinal care, adding important information to the literature in this area. What I found noticeably absent from the article were references to the pediatrician who deserves credit for putting doctor-patient communication research on the map in pediatrics, namely, Barbara Korsch.^2-5 She videotaped resident interviews with parents/patients, used interaction analysis to determine what was occurring in those sessions, and assessed parent satisfaction by conducting exit interviews. Korsch's seminal work is, unfortunately, largely unknown to many of today's trainees, yet her research helped to frame 3 questions that every pediatrician should be asking his or her patients or parents, ie, "Why did you bring your child to the office today?" "What concerns you most about your child?" and "Why does that concern you?" These questions have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Larrie Greenberg, MD
Children's National Medical Center
111 Michigan Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20010

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