For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves. When they do, it initiates a profound shift of awareness-- n

"Patients, anxious to convey their symptoms, feel an urgency to "make their case" to their doctors. Doctors, under pressure to be efficient, multitask while pat

The verbal and nonverbal exchanges that take place between doctor and patient affect both participants, and can result in a range of positive or negative psycho