How to Break Bad News: A Guide for Health Care Professionals - Softcover

Robert Buckman; Yvonne Kason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801844916 ISBN 13: 9780801844911

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

Synopsis

"This short, easy-to-read book . . . has a great potential to improve the way clinicians understand the process of breaking bad news" - Annals of Internal Medicine "At last, we have a wise, useful, readable textbook on the communication of unpleasant information" - New England Journal of Medicine

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book teaches doctors how to do effectively what many do poorly-communicate bad news to their patients. What the patient hears and understands, how the patient reacts and integrates the bad news, depends on how the doctor conveys it. This book teaches strategies, techniques, and responses that improve doctor patient relationships.

About the Author:

Dr. Robert Buckman (1948–2011) was a medical cancer specialist and the author of I Don't Know What to Say: How to Help and Support Someone Who Is Dying, and What You Really Need to Know about Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Their Families, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0801844916
• ISBN 13: 9780801844911
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240