title: Patient-Physician Communication in the 21st Century.
abstract: In clinical practice, a successful patient-physician partnership can improve the outcome of treatment, especially in cases of chronic disease or cancer. To establish this partnership, physicians must explain treatment options and potential outcomes, but how to best do this when treatment is based on scientific principles and findings that the lay patient will not be familiar with? Here we present a paradigm for patient-physician communication using the immunotherapy of cancer as a model. In this context, we argue for the importance of incorporating techniques in communicating science with patients into the training of early career physicians.
authors.affiliation: Ludwig Collaborative Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA; Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Claire F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.affiliation: Ludwig Collaborative Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA; Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA; Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, 10065, USA. Electronic address: wolchokj@mskcc.org.
authors.forename: Jedd D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Wolchok
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001688:Biological Products / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003142:Communication / Q000266:history*; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007167:Immunotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000266:history*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products