The good, bad and even the insincere: How doctors are changing the way they break bad news to patients, via Bhekisisa_MG.
, research featured in thefound. Based on my own experiences, I suspect this may be because communication protocols sometimes make health care practitioners seem insincere.
oncologist told an elderly patient that “there are signs that things are progressing” and recommended that the patient stop receiving chemotherapyWhen the patient was asked about the conversation afterwards, he replied, “It’s good news,” mistaking the doctor’s reference to “progress” as an affirmation that his chemo had worked.
viewers reported unanimous disdain for the so-called “rough and ready expert” who responded to his patients with brusque, unsympathetic comments like, “[You’re] afraid!? Why!?” A physician once told me that, after he informed a man that his sister had died in an unexpected car accident, that man became overwhelmed with grief and punched him directly in the face. I’m not sure an easy-to-remember acronym would have helped in this situation.The bad news about breaking bad news is that there is no one right way to do it. Behavior that feels comforting or appropriate to one person will not necessarily elicit the same reaction from others.
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