Breaking bad news
Description
Designed for health-care professionals, this video focuses on the difficulty of communicating bad news to the families of patients suffering from terminal illness. It presents a range of compassionate strategies for broaching the subject, addresses issues of cultural specificity, and stresses the importance of remaining calm.
Runtime
31 min
Series
Subjects
- Interpersonal communication (301)
- Communication in medicine (33)
- Physician and patient (14)
- Bad news (2)
Date of Publication
c2009
Database
Alexander Street
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