Dr. Gregory House Listening Style Analysis

While I was searching for a communication book, I came across the book Listening-Processes, Functions, and Competency written by Debra L. Worthington and Margaret E. Fitch-Hauser. The authors are both professors of communication at Auburn University. Worthington published many journals that focused on psychosocial factors, as where, Fitch-Hauser authored a book and a variety of book chapters and academic papers. Her focus was on listening fidelity, schemata information distortion in recall. What caught my eye about this book was it was tailored for college students. I always thought of communication as talking and really wanted to understand the listening part. As I skimmed through the book I came to chapter 6 which talked about Listening and Relationship building in families. I consider my family situation to be a little difficult at times because I have a son and girlfriend and we live with my parents. This extended family can be difficult at times so I chose to focus on this chapter because of that reason. Chapter 6 also discusses the importance of

The fourth interpersonal communication that was used throughout the movie is listening. There is a contrast between simply tuning in and hearing what others are stating. “Listening is making sense of others spoken messages.” (Adler & Rodman, 2015) In any case, listening isn't generally

Effective communication is not just about speaking and listening. It is also about watching and feeling. Our body language and tone of voice actually communicate more strongly than the words we use. So, listening effectively involves tuning in closely to the other person’s body language and tone of voice as well as their words.

First, mindful listening is important in communication just hearing what someone says is not enough we need to listen to who were are communicating with and give them our full attention. “To listen well, we rely on our ears, minds, and hearts” (Wood, 2016, p. 163). I have a problem with selective listening and I have worked on this to become a better listener throughout class with my family.

Firstly, it is not enough to be a good listener, one has to be an active and deep listener, with the true ability to understand what the other person is saying (Marquis & Huston, 2015). A servant-leader does not interrupt to argue, validate, or refute points, but allows free expression of the person to whom they are listening (Hunter, 1998). This demonstrates a contemplative as opposed to a reactive style, which builds trust with other people. When we have truly understood and not just heard our patient,

The show I am reviewing is House MD, specifically episode 2 in Season 2. The two ways the doctors in House MD exemplify good doctor practices is through their observational skills and ability to collaborate. To give a quick overview, Dr. House is a diagnostician who is presented with a new case every episode. Initially, Dr. House and his team write all the symptoms that the patient presents with, and then they collaborate and discuss possible diagnoses. At first, they believe that the 9 year old patient has terminal cancer. However, the patient appears to be too complacent with the fact that she is going to die; this leads to Dr. House questioning if this bravery is actually a symptom. Because of his observational skills and inclination not to discount any possible symptoms, Dr. House discovers that the patient must have a clot caused by the surgery to remove the benign tumor in her heart. Through collaboration, Dr. House shows his skills of observation.

Empathic listening “means entering the private perceptual world of another and becoming thoroughly at home in it. It involves being sensitive, moment-by-moment, to the changing felt meanings which flow in this person, to the fear or rage or tenderness or confusion or whatever that he or she is experiencing. It means temporarily living in the other’s life, moving about in it delicately without making judgements” (Rogers 1980 A Way of Being).

House is a reflection of typical American skepticism about various issues of life. Where today's average American is doubtful about what is going on around him and whether those around him are trust worthy or not, Dr. House is not different than others. Although he is a genius in his own field which makes him self-righteous about his opinions. However he believes that he has been provided with the right to exploit those around him and has been given a complete liberty to overrule their opinions. However, it is true that in many cases, he has been proven right which adds another feather to his hat.

Listening is a skill that requires active, rather than passive, participation to advance shared understanding and minimise misinterpretation. Lang, Floyd and Beine (2000) describe active listening as a skill that ‘focuses on attending to patients’ clues, ie, utterances and/or behaviors that are not explicit but may have special meaning and suggest unshared ideas, concerns, and expectations’. This essay will discuss how active listening strategies such as analysing and displaying non-verbal body language, clarifying meaning and accuracy, expressing understanding for the speaker’s feelings through empathy and silence contribute to effective communication by encouraging the speaker to convey his or her thoughts, building trust and

Talking and listening are essential life skills. The ability to talk in order to communicate and exchange ideas and information, to negotiate with others, to express feelings and emotions, allows human beings to function well in the world and to be full and active members of society. Communication, to be effective, requires the ability to listen, to understand and to make sense of what is heard. On the personal level, when we listen, we give attention to the other person in such a way as to allow them to feel heard, understood and therefore respected. In that way, listening is more than

However, in the other remaining parts of the book, the reader can observe the different techniques that Dr. Petersen provides what is related to listening, using the many different examples especially in the issues that it raise in groups of people. There cannot be a better description on how Dr. Petersen

Upon exploring the four different personal listening styles from which we had to choose, I was surprised to realize that I am considered a people-oriented and content-oriented listener. Another listening style which scored within close range of the aforementioned results was that of time-oriented listening. These results were

Though there are many interpersonal relationships of circumstance formed in the show House, people can be coworkers and/or have a patient-physician relationship without forming an interpersonal relationship. (Beebe et al. 2005) Dr. House is a perfect example of this. Dr. House may have a patient for weeks and not even so much as talk to them. The other doctors on the show talk to their patients and get to know them for the purpose of learning about their medical history. In doing this they usually find some common ground which forms the foundation for an interpersonal relationship. However, Dr. House avoids talking to his patients at all because he believes they just lie. While brainstorming about treatment options for a patient in the pilot episode, Dr. House says, “If we don’t talk to them (the patients) they can’t lie to us and we can’t lie to them.” (Jacobs K., Shore D., Attanasio P., Singer B., 2004) By choosing not to talk to his patients Dr. House forgoes any chance of developing an interpersonal relationship with his patients.

Listening plays an important role in communication as it is said that, of the total time spent on communicating, listening takes up 40-50%; speaking, 25-30%; reading, 11-16%; and writing, about 9% (Mendelsohn, 1994).

Interpersonal skills are important communication strategies for medical practitioners, predominantly to perform accurate assessments and provide quality treatment for patients. Such as the ability to use emotions to better communicate with others, or the ability to empathise with a patient to help establish engagement and feelings of empowerment, both fundamental attributes to effective practice (Sanson-Fisher & Maguire, 1980). Similarly the ability to listen effectively is also fundamental to practice, as it allows the practitioner to ‘get the full picture’ (Eunson 2012). Without interpersonal skills, practitioners such as radiographers are less likely to establish the trust needed to provide quality outcomes (Halpern, 2003). This