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End of Life Online Curriculum - Modules
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Communication: Breaking Bad News
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Challenges for the Clinician
Common challenges clinicians face when breaking bad news are:
- Conveying information with sensitivity and honesty
- Deciding whether or not to encourage hope
- Meeting the needs of patients from various cultural backgrounds whose prognostic information needs may differ
- Allowing for and processing clinicians own responses to her/his involvement in the process.
- Meeting the special needs of vulnerable populations ( chronically mentally ill, homeless patients etc)
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of Life Curriculum Project, a joint project of the US Veterans Administration
and SUMMIT,
Stanford University Medical School.
Funded by a grant to the Veterans
Administration Nationwide Palliative Care Network by
the National Library of Medicine. VJ Periyakoil, MD, Director.
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