Doctors' communication of trust, care, and respect

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1318

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Paper was muddled

Angela Coulter, chief executive (angela.coulter@pickereurope.ac.uk)

Picker Institute Europe, Oxford OX1 1RX

EDITOR—The discussion section of the paper by Burkitt-Wright et al on doctors' communication of trust, care, and respect in breast cancer is extraordinarily muddled.1 The first paragraph seems to imply that communication style is not of particular concern to patients but …