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CONSULTING    
  The Risk Communication Institute is often called on to provide consultancy services on all aspects of risks. Please indicate your interest on the form below and we will contact you with more information about our professional services.
BOOKS     
 
Helping Patients Understand Risks TM
7 Simple Strategies For Successful Communication
 
This book is designed to appeal to every healthcare professional in every discipline who talks to patients about risks. It offers specially designed visual aids that make it easy for patients to actually see what the likelihood numbers might mean for them It offers the important benefit of showing patients the positive perspective as well as the negative.
 
Healthcare agencies and drug companies will see opportunities for significant benefits as they carry out their responsibilities of informing the public about the realities of the risks, along with the benefits.
 
In addition, the author offers evidence that increased patient satisfaction, reduction in exposure to malpractice claims and enhanced doctor patient partnerships can all result from following the strategies presented in this book.
 
 
 
 
   
 

Up To Your Armpits In Alligators?
How to sort out what risks are worth worrying about!

John Paling introduces The Paling Perspective Scale
©
, his "Richter Scale for Risks." This communications tool help businesses explain about the safety of their products and services while also empowering the public to make better informed decisions by putting risks into perspective.

Soft Cover, 153 pages, 1997 ISBN 0-9642236-6
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  Up to your Armpits in Alligators
 
Dealing with the Real Risks to Local Communities
This easy-to-understand booklet is intended for businesses to give out at public meetings. It is specifically designed to encourage citizens to recognize that, in order to understand risks, we must look at the facts as well as respond to our emotions. (Illustrated with original cartoons).


Special customized editions of this booklet can be produced to answer the needs of a particular industry by including examples that relate to specific topics of concern. Please call for information.

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Dealing with the Real Riska to Local Communities
VIDEO TAPES    
 
Up to your Armpits in Alligators? How to sort out what risks are worth worrying about.

A live keynote to the American Industrial Health Council (60 minutes) This tape introduces the Paling Perspective Scale copyright and shows how it can be used to put risks into perspective.

Illustrated by Paling's video segments and power point slides developing the topic.
 

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  Up to your Armpits in Alligators?


 
It's A Jungle Out There! How to Achieve Incredible Results in a World of Uncertainty. A live presentation of John Paling's keynote to a healthcare audience. (60 minutes) This tape shows how John Paling and other emmy awarded photographers achieved their incredible results while working in the uncertain world of nature. He first demonstrates that patience is not the answer. Instead, he lays out seven main strategies that apply to successful people in all walks of life.

Naturally, this presentation includes wildlife video segments used as metaphors as the main points of his message.

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Unwavering Commitment to Caring. A live keynote presentation to the Case Management Society of America. (75 minutes) This presentation shows how professional caregivers can learn about the essential components of care giving from the world of nature. Dr. Paling acknowledges that measuring outcomes is always going to be an important objective in health care, yet sometimes does not reflect the effort and dedication of the individual in the network of caregivers.

John offers realistic ways for professionals to overcome this by introducing his "ambassador for caring" as a motivational badge for all attendees.

This special presentation is appropriate for all branches of health care and is illustrated by wildlife metaphors that are different from all other presentations.
 

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  Unwavering Commitment to Caring
PALING PALETTES IN PADS
   
 
These valuable risk communication tools are ideal for doctors and genetic counselors that want to SHOW their patients the estimated likelihood of different outcomes from different treatment options.

These versatile tools offer many benefits including
Showing the numbers of people who are NOT likely to suffer harm as well as those who might (an important factor in patient decision making)
Being intuitively simple to understand by patients of all educational levels and all different native languages
Enhancing doctor-patient partnerships particularly when the palettes are explained and filled in during the patient encounter. These palettes are available in two sizes-as below
   
 

   
 

POCKET SIZE PALETTE (5X8.5 inches)
Suitable for doctors' lab coats and sold only in pad form. The 1000 little icons of people can serve for any population of patients - family, men or women.

Each pad includes a front cover (in full color with demonstration of a palette in use): Plus 50 two-color Paling Palettes© for healthcare professionals to customize for their patients: Plus cardboard backing.



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FULL-SIZED PALETTES (8.5x11 inches)
Suitable for office-based consultations.
These are offered as pads of 50 full-sized palettes with icons of either all men, all women or family group (randomized 1 man, 1 woman, 1 boy, 1 girl).

Package of 5 pads (250 palettes)

Price USA = $99.00 + $15 postage and packing
Price Canada = $99.00 + $25 postage and packing
Price International = $99.00 + $30 postage and packing

Choose the make up of each palette below:

  • Family group - icons displayed in proportion of 1 man, 1 woman, 1 boy and 1 girl
  • All men - for issues of particular concern to male patients
  • All women - for issues of particular concern to female patients (Often preferred by genetic counsellors.)

Please write in if you need specific formats or customized printing included.

 

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Full-Sized Palettes - Family Group
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Full-Sized Palettes - All Men
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Full-Sized Palettes - All Women
 




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MINI GATORS
 
High quality Alligator Lapel Pins (approved for accuracy and quality by Dr Paling) Length 1"
Reminds attendees that they need never feel "swamped" or "up to their armpits in alligators" again.

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