To dear Colleagues focally concerned with provider/consumer issues in myriad contexts, and wondering if you know if these precepts and practices of Communication are taught in Medical School and other 'service' training programs:

 

On the next line flush left for accessibility is an Internet link to a statement which happens to be focused on physician and patient, or client, communication and relationships.

 

 

 

The Internet address (link)  is sent for your possible and anticipated interest in specifics and also general or overall implications for  fruitful relationships in broad.

 

The web page article  inherently might also be applied to peer and other relationships (at a slant here) but it seems especially interesting where there are express or implied agency relations, contexts with authority-markers, and where supported decision making is desirable but substituted decision making could prevail.  Also implied thoughts as to legal capacity - before the law - and generally to act - seem to intermix here with concepts of authority, representation of one by another, and various good to bear in mind venue traits. 

 

All such matters unavoidably touch on respect, dignity, and a sense of validated 'self' and how communication among different 'selfs 'or persona can bear on such; it is hoped that each reader may find in the article as data base something particularized for each reader's field.

 

Indeed, it will be interesting to learn what people in different fields and in different circumstances may take from the article as to the importance of communication, and in turn we can give back to the various fields via feedback channels here and elsewhere.

 

Wishing all a continuing good weekend,

 

LDMF.