Breaking Bad News Current Practices in Hospitals

Brig Syed Arsalan Haider Bukhari
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Brig Syed Arsalan Haider Bukhari: Department of Orthopedics, Northern Punjab Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Orthopedics and Rheumatology Open Access Journals, 2018, vol. 11, issue 2, 21-24

Abstract: Health and disease go hand in hand in a human’s life. Whenever a person is brought down by any ailment, his life comes to an effective halt. Many diseases are trivial and transient in nature but some are grave and chronic, even threatening the life of the effected patient. In such a situation, the most taxing duty for a doctor is to communicate the bad news to the effected patients and their relatives, thus indicating the importance of an effective communication in today’s health care. “Bad news†in its literal terms is self-explanatory, but in technical terms it is any information that results in a cognitive, behavioural or emotional deficit in the person receiving the news.

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/OROAJ.2018.11.555808

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