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   From: e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca   
      
   "Wayne Throop"  wrote in message   
   news:1377568861@sheol.org...   
      
   > Basically, if you demonstrate that you can hear and understand what   
   > they're   
   > saying, doctors seem much more likely to take you seriously and interact   
   > with you almost as if you were a person.  It's actually quite refreshing   
   > when that sort of thing happens.   
      
   This looks like a plan to waste as little as possible of the doctor's   
   limited time   
   (for a doctor who wants to explain the alternative treatment plans rather   
   than   
   simply selecting the one he judges best) viz. adapting the doctor's choice   
   of descriptive words to the patient's prior lexicon.   
      
   > Another related phenomenon is a veterinarian we used for some time.   
   > He would give lots of information unasked as a matter of course, and if   
   > you asked for more, he'd do that, too.  Somebody else mentioned "he always   
   > gets out a bit of paper and draws some bit of anatomy, almost every   
   > visit".   
   > I like that in a vet.   
      
   This looks like the personal peculiarity of a vet more enthusiastically   
   didactic than his professional colleagues.   
      
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   Don Phillipson   
   Carlsbad Springs   
   (Ottawa, Canada)   
      
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