Does physician centered communication attributes to assertive behavior,questions and directives,blocking,patronizing,power difference?

Answer 1

Since this is not my area of expertise, I searched Google under the key words "'physician centered communication'" to get these possible sources:

http://www.fhi.org/en/RH/Pubs/Network/v22_2/NWvol22-2methcont.htm
http://www.atmeda.org/conf/2008/Presentations/248.pdf
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/tmj.2008.9979
http://books.google.com/books?id=fGj36SqtlWAC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=%22physician+centered+communication%22&source=web&ots=k_SO4OwqCK&sig=Wh4mT3WXQMAGJ6cQsLTd1MNBHGQ&hl=en

In the future, you can find the information you desire more quickly, if you use appropriate key words to do your own search. Also see http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/.

Here is another related article:

http://www.members.cox.net/dagershaw/lol/physician.decision.htm

I hope this helps. Thanks for asking.