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The Chronic Patient's Comprehension and Recollection of His Own Clinical Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. J. Cheadle  and
R. Morgan
A. J. Cheadle
Affiliation:
St. Wulstan's Hospital, Malvern, Worcestershire
R. Morgan
Affiliation:
St. Wulstan's Hospital, Malvern, Worcestershire
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The patient undergoing rehabilitation is expected to do more than passively accept care and treatment. He is also expected to learn. The doctor or nurse purveying rehabilitation finds that the job increasingly includes teaching as well as treating patients. Most but not all of the transactions between teachers and taught are conducted by means of the spoken word. The extent to which messages are conveyed intact by this means (and without this no learning will occur) will depend among other things upon the speaker's clarity of expression and the listener's ability to understand.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 126 , Issue 3 , March 1975 , pp. 258 - 262
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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