Tonkin M E
S Afr Med J. 1977 Oct 8;52(16):657-60.
In their daily work the majority of doctors assume that communication with patients is easy and that it needs no special study. This is a false assumption which starts at undergraduate level, where there is no formalized training of the South African medical student in the art of communication. A mass of literature on communication in medicine has evolved very recently; some of it is reviewed, and a plea is made that urgent attention be devoted to this gap in South African medicine.
在日常工作中，大多数医生认为与患者沟通很容易，不需要专门学习。这是一个错误的假设，该假设始于本科阶段，在这个阶段南非医学生没有接受过沟通艺术的正规培训。最近出现了大量关于医学沟通的文献；其中一些文献进行了综述，并呼吁南非医学界应迫切关注这一差距。
