Giving bad news to patients

How do you handle giving bad news?

Dr. Liz Dreesen writes about her early experiences while reflecting on a seminar about the topic.

I trained before there was any formal curriculum on “communication in medicine.” It was assumed that we’d simply pick it up along the way, which I did, eventually. It was a process of trial and error though, painfully weighted on the side of error.

How to bear bad news [Via Raleigh Duram News & Observer]

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