%0 Journal Article
%T Can All Doctors Be Like This? Seven Stories of Communication
Transformation Told by Physicians Rated Highest by Patients
%A Karen Tallman
%A Tom Janisse
%J Archive of "The Permanente Journal".
%D 2017
%R 10.7812/TPP/16-097
%X The top predictors of patient satisfaction with clinical visits are the quality of the physician-patient relationship and the communications contributing to their relationship. How do physicians improve their communication, and what effect does it have on them? This article presents the verbatim stories of seven high-performing physicians describing their transformative change in the areas of communication, connection, and well-being
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5363898/