Studies of Doctor-Patient Interaction
Annual Review of Public HealthPublished 1 May 1989
Debra Roter, Judith A. Hall
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This review supplement supplements a selective review of the literature on discussion between doctors and patients and describes the findings as a "Rorschach test" for readers in which overall interpretations are as apt to reveal something about the reader as about the results themselves.
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