Provider-Patient Communication Student: Professor: Course title: Date: Provider-Patient Communication Effective and efficient communication between providers and patients is integral to achieving health care that is truly adequate. Patients with communication difficulties, for whatever reason, would actually keep on experiencing dissatisfaction, needless pain, consequential medical errors, premature deaths, as well as incentives to litigate due to various and usually avoidable, sentinel events (Travaline, Ruchinskas & D’Alonzo, 2005). Effective