The silent dimension: Expressing humanism in each medical encounter

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1095-1099

  Schattner, Ami ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; CAPTURES TECHNIQUE; CAREGIVER; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CURRICULUM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GESTURE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HONESTY; HUMAN; HUMANISM; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME; TRAINING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANISM; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 67649458165     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.103     Document Type: Note

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