Please Don't Break My Other Leg!: A Guide to Empathising with Patients

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Please Don't Break My Other Leg! is a guide to improving communication between health care professionals and patients. Valerie Mirvis breathes new life into the teaching of empathic skills by writing in an engaging and moving style and by including genuine case histories, controversial scientific research, imagery, literary quotations and Rikki Marr's specially commissioned illustrations. Based on more than 500 interviews, this book is profound enough to enhance the knowledge of professionals with considerable experience, while at the same time appealing to general members of the public with little or no experience of visiting the sick.

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Her book explores the relationship between health professionals, patients and their visitors, and looks at factors that can enhance and hinder empathy, providing useful examples that could form the basis for workshops on communication skills. . . . This book will be particularly interesting to clinical nurses. * Nursing Times *
The excellent style leads the reader smoothly through the book...All in all it is an enjoyable book, which certainly has to be read by professionals who regularly have to deal with very ill patients. * Progress In Palliative Care *
. . . the book is aimed at helping healthcare professionals, such as hospital consultants, to be more sensitive to the feelings of their patients. But it is also invaluable to anyone who encounters someone who is bereaved, or in any way sick, frail, orvulnerable. * The Jewish Chronicle, UK *
. . . the book is aimed at helping healthcare professionals, such as hospital consultants, to be more sensitive to the feelings of their patients. But it is also invaluable to anyone who encounters someone who is bereaved, or in any way sick, frail, or vulnerable. * The Jewish Chronicle, UK *
Her book explores the relationship between health professionals, patients and their visitors, and looks at factors that can enhance and hinder empathy, providing useful examples that could form the basis for workshops on communication skills. . . . This book will be particularly interesting to clinical nurses. * Nursing Times *
The excellent style leads the reader smoothly through the book...All in all it is an enjoyable book, which certainly has to be read by professionals who regularly have to deal with very ill patients. * Progress In Palliative Care *

Author Bio

Valerie Mirvis is a Social Worker in Jewish Care's North West London Area Team. She has received the rare honor of becoming the first person without medical qualifications to be elected to the Council of the London Jewish Medical Society.