Contextualizing the Content of Clinical Communications: A Learning Point

Abstract

Suboptimal communication or inadequate exchange of important clinical information can be peculiarly perilous in subspecialties like cardiac anesthesia that are characterized by a highly predisposed working environment.[1] [2] [3] While the fraternity acknowledges an effective communication to be at the cornerstone of minimizing the susceptibility to avoidable perioperative critical events, as George Bernard Shaw aptly puts it: the major problem with communication is precisely the illusion that it has taken place.[1] [4]