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A doctor’s caring attitude fosters rapport and trust which, together with the clinician’s skill in listening and communicating, makes the doctor–patient encounter powerful as a diagnostic and therapeutic agency [1, 2]. When a patient senses that the physician genuinely cares, disclosure is more open, allowing the clinician a fuller appreciation of the patient’s difficulty and discovery of previously unapparent therapeutic opportunities. When a patient senses that the physician cares, advice and prescriptions are received more willingly because the patient is more likely to feel that the management offered has been carefully considered and individualized.

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Fleisher, D.R. (2014). Introduction. In: Management of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders in Children. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1089-2_1

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