Objective To identify the ways in which physicians, patients and interpreters express
emotions, react to emotional expressions and/or coordinate the emotional interaction in …

Due to ongoing globalization and migration waves, healthcare providers are increasingly
caring for patients from diverse cultural and/or ethnic minority backgrounds. Adequate health …

Objective To investigate how empathic communication is expressed in interpreter-mediated
consultations (IMCs) and the interpreter's effect on it. Methods We coded 20 authentic video …

Doctors and patients rely on verbal and nonverbal resources to co-construct clinical
empathy. In language-discordant consultations, interpreters' communicative actions might …

Objective To provide guidance on multilingual and language discordant healthcare
communication. Discussion We provide a critical reflection on common stumbling blocks to …

Background: Hospitals and other medical institutions must prepare for a further increase in
patients who are either immigrants or Germans with a migration background. In spite of the …

Current interpreter training programs pay increasingly more attention to the intricacies of the
clinical context, such as doctors and patients' communicative goals. However, to date, the …

Abstract Tell Me More®(TMM) is a medical student-driven initiative to build rapport between
patients, students, and the healthcare team through patient interviews and collaboratively …

Introduction Effective doctor–patient communication in oncology settings can be challenging
due to the complexity of the cancer disease trajectory. The challenges can become greater …

Background: Through interprofessional collaboration, learning with, from and about one
another, working together and respecting each other's point of view, the healthcare team can …