title: [How can we achieve balanced communication to be clearer, more exhaustive and more efficient? What techniques are needed?]
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Patient/practitioner communication plays a major role in the acceptance of treatment. Since the Kouchner law in France, patients must be allowed to give their free and informed consent and to be made aware of all the available therapies given their situation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Practitioners have nowadays access to a range of aids enabling them to present the treatments they envisage as thoroughly as possible, exposed by the author in this article.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The key to our success remains the construction of a confidence-based relationship between practitioner and patient.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bartala
mesh_terms: D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D003142:Communication; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations