Contents

CHAPTER 1
Communication and Its Discontents

CHAPTER 2
From Both Sides Now

CHAPTER 3
It Takes Two

CHAPTER 4
Now Hear This

CHAPTER 5
With All Good Intentions

CHAPTER 6
What Works

CHAPTER 7
Chief Listening Officer

CHAPTER 8
Listen to Me

CHAPTER 9
Just the Facts, Ma’am

CHAPTER 10
Do No Harm

CHAPTER 11
What Lies Beneath

CHAPTER 12
The Language of Medicine

CHAPTER 13
Rushing to Judgment

CHAPTER 14
Can It Be Taught?

CHAPTER 15
A Fragile Truce Shatters

CHAPTER 16
Can We Talk?

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index