Communication is central in medicine. A good doctor should shape the relationship with their patients in such a way that they become partners in the shared effort towards healing or improvement. This requires effective communication. This book clearly and practically conveys the outstanding importance and relevant fundamentals of medical communication. Resident doctors in training for their specialty, as well as specialists and students, will find a brief introduction to the basics of communication, the temporal phases of contact between doctor and patient (conversation roadmap), different patient/conversation types, and also communicative differences depending on the specialty and the personality of the doctor.