What Do the Doctors Say?: How Doctors Create a World through Their Words - Hardcover

Leontiou PH D, Janet Farrell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1450225802 ISBN 13: 9781450225809

Publisher: iUniverse, 2010

Synopsis

The medical world creates its own culture. This culture, however, would not continue if it were not for our participation. As consumers of health care, the way in which we talk, too, maintains the medical culture as it is. This culture frequently dismisses the wisdom of parents and talks them out of their own sense. We, as parents, co-create a culture that continually diminishes us. This collaboration has disastrous consequences for our children. How many times have you heard about a parent having a particular insight into his/her child only to be dissuaded from the truth by the doctor? What Do the Doctors Say? provides stories from the author's own experience as a mother. As a scholar of communication, she has identified twelve language patterns that are used to create medical culture. The book is written particularly for parents of children with disabilities but may be a useful tool for all consumers of health care.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1450225802
• ISBN 13: 9781450225809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 132