To the Depth of Health Care

Bellieni, Carlo V.

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“…These six languages are the fundament of a holistic–evolutive approach to palliative care [ 26 ]. We can use verbal and non-verbal semantic expressions to acknowledge (a) the whole spectrum of human dimensions of the patient, (b) the step where they are across their grief or their growth, and (c) patients’ wishes and needs.…”

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Verbal Communication with the Patient Is Not Enough: The Six Languages of the Sick

Bellieni

2022

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Evidence shows that verbal communication is just one of the ways patients indicate their wishes. For a sufficiently careful communication, we should also grasp other five unusual though evident languages: (a) body language, (b) the way patients manage their environment, (c) unconscious language, (d) lab-evidenced language, and (e) the way they master technology. So, we have six languages that should be intertwined to understand the real language of the sick. Grasping these languages helps health professionals frame the patient's mood, their level of suffering or mental growth, and understand what words alone cannot express. Words cannot express completely what a patient senses: for subjection, shyness, because some patients are still non-verbal or because verbal communication is just a useful way of freezing concept but has not the same fluidity and liberty of the other above-described languages. It is mandatory for caregivers to wonder how many of these languages they are actually decrypting during an interview with the patient. On the other hand, caregivers unconsciously communicate much through two unexpected languages: the architectural language and the language of medical procedures. The way they welcome or obstruct the patient, their hesitations across a treatment, or in showing a serene collegiality are forms of subtle communication. A paradigmatic scenario where all these languages should be implemented is the “informed consent” process, which should be turned into a “shared therapeutic pathway”, summing up all the communicative modes illustrated in the text.

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To the Depth of Health Care

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Verbal Communication with the Patient Is Not Enough: The Six Languages of the Sick

Verbal Communication with the Patient Is Not Enough: The Six Languages of the Sick

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