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Learning to Listen

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:414-415.

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THE ABILITY to listen is arguably the most important clinical skill in medicine. Ask any person the question, Based on your personal experience, what quality do you most associate with physicians you consider "good," and what quality do you most associate with physicians you consider "bad?" The top response is: the "good" physician is one who listens; the "bad" physician is one who is inattentive and rushed.

The teachers most sharply etched in my memory are those who tried to imbue attitudes on how to approach patients or those who modeled ways of communicating with children and their parents. A few examples that come to mind of such teachers are: Randolph Byers, a neurologist at Boston Children's Hospital who was known to say: "Neurologists don't do much to alter the course of an illness. We mostly help families adjust to the terrible things that have befallen them." Rudolph Toch, an . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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