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What Do the Doctors Say?: How Doctors Create a World through Their Words

What Do the Doctors Say?: How Doctors Create a World through Their Words

Leontiou, Janet Farrell

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Medical Reference

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 1450225802
ISBN13: 9781450225809
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Jul 13 2010
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The medical world creates its own culture. This culture, however, would not continue if it were not for our participation. As consumers of health care, the way in which we talk, too, maintains the medical culture as it is. This culture frequently dismisses the wisdom of parents and talks them out of their own sense. We, as parents, co-create a culture that continually diminishes us. This collaboration has disastrous consequences for our children. How many times have you heard about a parent having a particular insight into his/her child only to be dissuaded from the truth by the doctor? What Do the Doctors Say? provides stories from the author's own experience as a mother. As a scholar of communication, she has identified twelve language patterns that are used to create medical culture. The book is written particularly for parents of children with disabilities but may be a useful tool for all consumers of health care.

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