Katz is the science writer/communicator with the Department of Family Medicine and the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center at the University of Michigan. She helps to promote research conducted by members of both the department and the RRTC. She also provides editorial assistance for Annals of Family Medicine, the top-ranking family medicine journal in the country, which is edited by members of U-M's Department of Family Medicine.
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Researchers have proposed an enhanced model of communication focusing not only on what is said in the clinic, but also nonverbal communication of the doctor and how doctors in turn interpret patients’ nonverbal cues.
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American hospitals vary greatly in what they offer to birthing parents when a stillbirth occurs during labor or delivery.
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These services, researchers found, were largely inaccessible to people who use sign language, discriminating against already ‘severely marginalized’ population in the United States.
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The study builds an understanding around the experience of medical assistants in the clinic setting.
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Physicians, patients regard information delivery, clinic visits via video as comparable to face-to-face interactions, according to two U-M Department of Family Medicine studies.
