Tag: bad news
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Bad news and emotions: caring for others and self
Sometimes it seems that there is only bad news and on days like those it is harder to remember the heart-warming events of my health professional life. Distressing episodes are more likely to pop into my mind and are more poignant. My earliest memory of having to break bad news as a doctor was during my…
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Good news, bad news: who decides?
A woman sits down and says: ‘I’m pregnant’. Pause. Context is so important here. How I respond is likely to affect our person-professional relationship, perhaps for some time. Is this good news or bad news or perhaps she hasn’t decided yet? One definition of bad news in the health care setting is ‘any news that drastically and negatively alters…
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