Introduction to the Dedicated Issue

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Listening, Talking, Relating: The State of the Art and Science
of the Doctor-Patient Relationship in Family Medicine Education
DJ Steele, K Marvel
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Communication Techniques and Behaviors

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Family Interviewing: A Review of the Literature in Primary Care
TL Campbell; SH McDaniel, K Cole-Kelly, J Hepworth, A Lorenz
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Is Communication a Skill? Communication Behaviors and Being in Relation
K Zoppi, RM Epstein
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Sequenced Questioning to Elicit Patients' Perspective on Illness: Effects
on Information Disclosure, Patient Satisfaction, and Time Expenditure
F Lang, MR Floyd, KLB Beine, P Buck
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Responding Effectively to Patient Anger Directed at the Physician
RS McCord, MR Floyd, F Lang, VK Young
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Teaching Communication

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Teaching Medical Communication Skills: A Call for Greater Uniformity
D Buyck, F Lang
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The Other Half of the Whole: Teaching Patients to Communicate With Physicians
DM Post, DJ Cegala, WF Miser
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Modern Culture and Physician-Patient Communication

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Culture, Language, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
WJ Ferguson, LM Candib
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21st-Century Health Care: The Effect of Computer Use by Physicians
on Patient Satisfaction at a Family Medicine Clinic
GM Garrison, ME Bernard, NH Rasmussen
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Communicating With Special Populations

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Communicating With Patients About Intimate Partner Violence:
Screening and Interviewing Approaches
CT Fogarty, S Burge, EC McCord
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Cross-cultural Communication With Patients Who Use American Sign Language
S Barnett
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The Role of Health Literacy in Patient-Physician Communication
MV Williams, T Davis, RM Parker, BD Weiss
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Commentary

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Three Blind Men and an Elephant: Reflections on Meeting the Challenges
of Patient Diversity in Primary Care Practice
D Roter
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