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While charting the journey from the X-ray to the MRI or from penicillin to gene therapy and beyond is fascinating, one healthcare area that has perhaps more quietly been transforming over the past two decades is patient communication.

Some family medicine physicians follow the AIDET® Fundamentals of Patient Communication: acknowledge, introduce, duration, explanation and thank you. Others use the RESPECT Model, which focuses on rapport, empathy, support, partnership, explanations, cultural competence and trust. Doctors who do not communicate effectively with their patients probably don’t utilize any proven method.