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The Chronic Patient's Comprehension and Recollection of His Own Clinical Review
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2018
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The patient undergoing rehabilitation is expected to do more than passively accept care and treatment. He is also expected to learn. The doctor or nurse purveying rehabilitation finds that the job increasingly includes teaching as well as treating patients. Most but not all of the transactions between teachers and taught are conducted by means of the spoken word. The extent to which messages are conveyed intact by this means (and without this no learning will occur) will depend among other things upon the speaker's clarity of expression and the listener's ability to understand.
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