We Have To Talk, Doctor

How doctors think and what patients need

The new book by the best-selling author and patient-whisperer Dr med. Yael Adler

Print run of all books around the world: more than 500,000 copies!

Yael Adler shows how communication with your doctor can succeed!  

Doctors and patients - this relationship is important, and often lives even depend on it. Unfortunately, it is frequently in crisis. “You don’t understand me”, “You never have time for me”, “I don’t trust you anymore”. Negative feelings as well as lacking empathy and devotion turn doctors from healers into problems. The consequences are frustration, doubt and ultimately the lack of good therapy outcomes.

Yael Adler shows pointedly and with many case studies what types of doctors and patients there are, how they both think and what part they respectively play in doctor-patient relationships. She reveals how we can get the doctor to really listen to us and also how we can better understand what they are trying to tell us. As a result, doctor and patient become a really strong team in order to successfully endure small and serious illnesses - and to do so in a trusting way.

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  • Publisher: Droemer HC
  • Release: 01.09.2020
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-27802-4
  • 368 Pages
  • Authors: Dr. med. Yael Adler
  • Illustrated by: Katja Spitzer
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Dr. med. Yael Adler Katja Spitzer We Have To Talk, Doctor
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Dr. med. Yael Adler

Dr. med. Yael Adler is a specialist in dermatology, venereology, phlebology and nutritional medicine (DGEM). She is also in demand as an expert in anti-ageing medicine and longevity, i.e. healthy ageing. She has worked in clinical research and has been running her own practice in Berlin since 2007. She has also been practising at the renowned Clinic Utoquai in Zurich since 2024. Yael Adler has a talent for explaining complex medical issues in an understandable and accessible way. She demonstrates this in stand-up lectures and as a health expert in the media, including as a medical expert in various TV formats (including Sat.1-Frühstücksfernsehen, ZDF-Fernsehgarten, ARD-Buffet, hr-Ratgeber, RTL Punkt 12), as a sought-after sparring partner for major interviews in newspapers and magazines, as a columnist for t-online.de and the FAZ am Sonntag. She has also been giving expert advice with her interview partners for years in her regular podcast “Ist das noch gesund?”. Her books “Haut nah” (2016, translated into 35 languages), “Darüber spricht man nicht” (2018) and “Genial vital” (2023), published by Droemer, all reached number 1 on the SPIEGEL bestseller list.

Portrait von Katja Spitzer
Katja Spitzer

Yael Adler is a dermatologist with a passion for skin and hair. She worked in clinical research for many years and since 2007, she has headed her own practice in Grunewald (Berlin). She has shown her talent and passion for communicating complex medical information about skin in a clear and very entertaining manner in numerous presentations and as a health expert in the media. Her first popular non-fiction title, “Haut nah”, was a Spiegel no. 1 best seller and was translated into 25 languages.