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Publication details [#43313]

Bylund, Carma L. and Gregory Makoul. 2005. Examining Empathy in Medical Encounters: An Observational Study Using the Empathic Communication Coding System. Health Communication 18 (2) : 123–140.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code | doctor-patient conversation | empathy | medical conversation

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

Annotation

This paper uses the Empathic Communication Coding System to examine how physicians respond to opportunities to empathically communicate with their patients during initial visits in a general internal medicine clinic.