Breaking Bad News: When, How, How much?
Journal Title: GUJARAT CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH JOURNAL - Year 2014, Vol 16, Issue 2
Abstract
Communication is the art of transmitting information, ideas and attitudes from one person to another. It is the process of meaningful interaction among human beings. All of us have faced a situation where we find ourselves caught in trouble while talking to patients and their relatives!!!!! It is especially true when we as doctors have to tell for the first time that “they have got a cancer” or “their cancer is no longer curable”! Hence in this article we have tried to focus such different scenarios and discuss whether or not to convey them about their disease status and if it is necessary, how it should be communicated? Before we proceed to discussion let us see few things about communication
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Ruchira Trivedi
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