Recently the medical researcher Wendy Levinson recorded hundreds of conversations between a group of physicians and their patients. Roughly half of the doctors had never been sued. The other half had been sued at least twice. Levinson found that just on the basis of those conversations, she could find clear differences between the two groups. The surgeons who had never been sued spent more than three minutes longer with each patient than those who had been sued did (18.3 minutes versus 15 minutes). They were more likely to make orienting comments, such as “First I’ll examine you, and then we will take the problem over” or “I will leave time for your questions”—which help patients get a sense of what the visit is supposed to accomplish and when they can ask questions. They were more likely to engage in active listening, saying such things as “Go on, tell me more about that,” and they were far more likely to laugh and be funny during the visit. Interestingly, there was no big difference in the amount or quality of information they gave their patients; they didn’t provide more details about medication or the patient’s condition. The difference was entirely in how they talked to their patients.
【題組】44 In this passage, the function of “orienting comments” is to help patients .
(A)find their ways around the hospital (B)understand what to expect from doctors
(C)get an idea when to sue their doctors (D)comment on their doctors’ instructions
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