“The physician’s belief in the treatment and the patient’s faith in the physician exert a mutually reinforcing effect; the result is a powerful remedy that is almost guaranteed to produce an improvement and sometimes a cure” Skrabanek and McCormick, Follies and Fallacies in Medicine, p. 13.
Sometimes, like today, my job is simply to convene – the parties will do the rest.
The trick is to recognise what the prime role is on any given day – then to stay out of the way.
Gary Fitzpatrick taught me that.
PGP Mediation Blog by Phyllis G. PollackRecently, I came across a report from the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation entitled “Salary Negotiations”. (HLS_PON_FR_SalaryNeg_V03_031416_wf ) While it focuses on negotiating the...
By Phyllis PollackI have often bemoaned the spotty state of mediation education, training and mentoring in the ranks of those people who mediate litigated cases. My own recent mediation experience - as...
By Victoria PynchonDisputing Blog by Karl Bayer, Victoria VanBuren, and Holly HayesJudith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, has published “Diffusing Disputes: The Public in the Private of...
By Katherine Graham
