It’s our long-overdue episode devoted to listening. I read from Professor Katherine Schultz’s book on listening, and we do a quick exercise to help you think about improving your listening. Maybe you are working on trying to reduce avoidable health inequalities. Or maybe you want to try to promote a more welcoming work environment. Or […]
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Health Communication Hub
Welcome to the Health Communication Hub from Health Communication Partners A central place where you’ll find our top health communication resources Our exclusive BRIDGES approach connects equity to communication in an actionable way to reduce health disparities. I have spent years helping some of the world’s top health organizations improve communication practices to meet the […]
Episode 179 “How do I talk to you?” Three ways to strengthen your patient communication
A nurse educator shared a question that was on her students’ minds as they approached patients: “How do I talk to you?” Learn three ways to improve your patient communication. How do I talk to you? A question like that is probably on a lot of our minds when we’re going into an important conversation. […]
Catching up with this year’s guest interviews
2024 has already been a great year here at HCP. 10 Minutes to Better Patient Communication was recently ranked #20 in the Top 100 Podcasts in the Social Sciences by Goodpods! No doubt it’s because of our talented, good-looking, intelligent audience, and the amazing guests who allow us to eavesdrop on their reflections. This year […]
Episode 175 Reflecting on the connections between health disparities and communication
National Minority Health Month is an opportunity to reflect on the connections between health disparities and communication. It’s essential to lean on research and outside expertise when communicating. But I share what might be an unpopular opinion about the role of expert recommendations in our communication efforts. It’s National Minority Health Month, so we’re going […]
The high costs of ineffective communication
This National Minority Health Month, it’s worth reminding ourselves that communication is directly tied to outcomes. “Patient-clinician communication (PCC) may generate or reduce healthcare disparities,” according to Eliseo J Perez-Stable, Director of National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (Communicating with Diverse Patients: How Patient and Clinician Factors Affect Disparities, emphasis mine). Ineffective communication […]