Reviews for Communication for health professionals

The average rating for Communication for health professionals based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-09-19 00:00:00 Yutaka Maeda Like the other reviewer said, way too long and wordy for the amount of wisdom it contains. The Good? If you don't know anything about culture, then this might be useful, even then, you might be just fine reading the summary of each chapter instead of reading the whole thing. The Bad: 1. WAY TOO MANY REFERENCES! While I appreciate the authors' integrity to give credits where credits are due and the fact that they are obviously well read (too well), they cite about 170-200+ sources PER chapter, this makes very difficult reading as you trying to switch between different writing styles. I think they could have synthesized more and quoted less and the book would be twice as good with half the length. 2. Too much fluff: Ex. Page 72, "The importance of worldview to the study of intercultural communication cannot be overstated." What is the point of this? How about just say, "Worldview is essential to Intercultural communication." Cannot be overstated? The author surely tries, with 6 quotations no less. These kind of vague, uninsightful statements abound in this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-11-21 00:00:00 Fahd Abouabsi Touchy feely text book. Apparently there are different cultures in the world and we should respect them. Spends 360 pages saying things everyone already knows. i.e., Apparently our families and environment teach us culture, but not everyone in the same culture is the same, no way. repeats the 10 pages worth of insightful, less obvious, but still relatively obvious points throughout the whole book like we didn't get it the first time. never seen a book that wastes as many words as this book. not to go on and on here, but the authors should be ashamed.