Few people will easily admit to taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others. But who doesn't enjoy it when an arrogant but untalented contestant is humiliated on American Idol, or when the embarrassing vice of a self-righteous politician is exposed, or even when an envied friend suffers a small set[...]
Few people confess easily to taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others. Maybe this is why there is no word for the feeling in English. And so schadenfreude, that beguiling German word, is borrowed to label the experience. But most of us can secretly think of many times when a misfortune suffered [...]
A comprehensive, evidence-based introduction to the principles and practices of patient communication in a clinical setting Endorsed by the American Academy on Communication for Healthcare Updated and expanded by a multidisciplinary team of medical experts, Smith's Patient-Centered Interviewing, Thi[...]
This is an open access title available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence. It is free to read on Oxford Medicine Online and offered as a free PDF download via OUP and selected open access locations. Before new interventions are released into disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefu[...]