Health Communication Breast Cancer Treatment

Question: Describe the Summary Analysis paper for Listening to women's narratives of breast cancer treatment and his analysis ? Answer: Communication This chapter of the book emphasizes the feminine approach to the patients satisfaction who are suffering from breast cancer (Ellingson and Patrice, 156). In this chapter, Patrice Buzzanell and Laura Ellingson retrieved womens stories about the treatment of breast cancer. This is a different approach to learn patient-physician communication. Physician-patient communication is considered as a single episode, which is quantitative and could be studied using health care personnel. The goal of this chapter is to voice the experience of the women who survived breast cancer and their satisfaction level while communicating with physicians. From the literature review, it is found that physician-patient communication today considered as the central concern. In the physician-patient communication, gender is helpful to shape the way of communication in a better way. The physician-patient interaction is directly affected by institutional, social, professional and sociocultural factors. In this st udy, 14 participants were chosen who were identified with breast cancer from 9 months to 7 years. The participants aged between 33-70 years (lived in rural/suburban areas). Initially, the participants were asked four primary questions, requesting the description of the physician and how they chose their physicians. Then the participants were recruited in different hospitals. All interviews were recorded and transcribed by the researchers. The researchers used both thematic and narrative analytical techniques to analyze the result. They independently read all the transcripts and managed to isolate common semantic concerns, phrases, and issues. Three main themes were found such as Respect, caring, and reassurance of expertise. These themes were helpful to structure the Womens stories about the physician-patient communication. References Ellingson, Laura L., and Patrice M. Buzzanell. "Listening to women's narratives of breast cancer treatment: A feminist approach to patient satisfaction with physician-patient communication."Health Communication11.2 (1999): 153-183.