6533b81ffe1ef96bd1279075

RESEARCH PRODUCT

Breaking bad news: How to cope.

Di MarcoLucia Craxì

subject

Medical educationPhysician-Patient RelationsTruth DisclosureHepatologybusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectCommunicationMedical HumanitieGastroenterologyMEDLINEHepatology; Gastroenterology; Communication; Bad news; Medical Humanities; EmpathyEmpathyTruth Disclosure03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicine030220 oncology & carcinogenesisBad newMedicineHumans030211 gastroenterology & hepatologyMedical humanitiesEmpathybusinessmedia_common

description

Physicians often are uncomfortable when communicating an unfavorable outcome: they feel inadequate in the face of uncontrollable disease and unprepared to manage the emotional reactions of patients. For lack of proper training, they often adopt inappropriate ways to disclose unfavorable information. We will outline some key points about the issue of disclosing bad news and aim to provide useful tools to physicians who have to cope frequently with breaking bad news to patients, providing examples and clinical sceneries specific to gastroenterology and hepatology practice.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2018-01-01Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
10.1016/j.dld.2018.06.001https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29960899