title: Prescribing the leaflets.
abstract: For legal reasons, but even more for the practice of good medicine, patients require much more information about their diseases, and about any proposed investigations or surgery than was customary in the past. In view of well-documented problems with the assimilation of purely verbal information, there is an increasing need for words to be backed by appropriate written material.
authors.affiliation: Milton Keynes General Hospital.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fawdry
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003199:Computer Systems; D006801:Humans; D010174:Pamphlets; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D011327:Printing