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examination (Bickley 2004). There a various consultation models, the use of the mnemonic framework PQRST (Atkinson 1993) used for describing pain can be adapted for most physical examinations within a consultation. P Proactive/Palliation Q Quality R Radiation S Severity T Temporal/Timing Although this framework was used the consultation was essentially based around the well documented and established Calgary-Cambridge model of communication (Silverman et al 2005), which consists of five

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This page intentionally left blank International Management Culture, Strategy, and Behavior Eighth Edition Fred Luthans University of Nebraska–Lincoln Jonathan P. Doh Villanova University INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT: CULTURE, STRATEGY, AND BEHAVIOR, EIGHTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Previous editions © 2009,