Relationship between medical professionals and patients: Exploring the role of nonviolent communication in enhancing engagement

There is an intricate relationship between medical professionals and patients. Continuing with their Hippocratic Oath, doctors are expected to adhere to the “utmost respect for human life from its beginning”. In the backdrop of increasing stress and commercial interests, it is possible that the relationship between the medical professionals and patients become mechanical guided by monetary interests. Such a relationship is not good either for the medical professionals or for the patients. In distress due to health reasons, patients trust their doctors to heal them. For evolution of a genuine relationship, it is important that doctors not only focus on medical healing but also provide them the succor and mental satisfaction that they will get better. In this context, the role of nonviolent communication in being the fulcrum of the communication process between medical professionals and doctors is significant. This chapter will look the role of nonviolent communication in how nonviolent communication enhances engagement between the two.