Myriam Deveugele

TL;DR: Results show that patients from lower social classes receive less positive socio-emotional utterances and a more directive and less participatory consulting style, characterised by significantly less information giving, less directions and less socio-Emotional and partnership building utterances from their doctor.

TL;DR: The literature on the social gradient in doctor-patient communication that was published in the last decade, addresses new issues and themes, including the importance of the reciprocity of communication.

TL;DR: Communication is embedded in a global patient-, student- and community-oriented curriculum and that communication skills are seen as core elements of good doctoring.

TL;DR: The Verona-CoDES-P system permits sequence analysis and a detailed description of how providers handle patient's expressions of emotion, and should be applied to investigate the relationship between provider responses to patients' expression of emotions and outcome variables.

TL;DR: It is suggested that patients with acute sore throat and who hope for antibiotics may in fact want treatment for pain, and that the desire for pain relief is a strong predictor of the hope to receive a prescription for antibiotics.