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[Dysphagia] "Familiarity breeds contempt"


  • Subject: [Dysphagia] "Familiarity breeds contempt"
  • From: CFR42 at aol.com (CFR42@aol.com)
  • Date: Mon Jun 7 05:08:09 2004

In a message dated 6/6/04 5:43:01 PM, HAL9600 writes:

<< How we communicate simply matters more than the content to us.  
Professionals aren't exempt.  Arguably, they should be, but I wouldn't make 
that argument.  It seems to me that professional skills ought to include the 
extra it requires to communicate without saying or doing things that will 
predictably evoke personal responses.  That skill set is certainly required when we 
communicate with patients, so why would we not apply it to professional 
communication as well.  Communication that fails in this regard, it seems to me, is 
careless, undisciplined...unprofessional.
Why should we be satisfied with less?  Does the content matter more than the 
relationships?
Gerry Brooks >>

Firstly, I always have loved those who use the word "unprofessional". They 
are almost inevitably the ones who are the least professional of all. Secondly, 
How we communicate simply matters more than the content to us.  Maybe to you. 
How sad. We are then no better off than  monkeys! And I have personal 
relationships with my patients....no I don't fornicate with them...I simply care. Did 
you ever see Patch Adams?
C'mon Gerry,
smile....c'mon now....
Craig in RI


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