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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Author; The Moment of Encounter-""Please Come In"": Two People Meet; 1. Who Needs This Book, and Why a Doctor Had to Write It; Breaking Bad News; Unbearable Fear; How Is Communication Taught and Learned?; A Topic That Affects Us All-Even in Private; 2. Breaking Bad News Well; A Visit from the Head Doctor; Preparing for an Existential Conversation; What Do Patients Expect of a Good Doctor?; Being Aware of One's Role; How Do I Start a Conversation When Sharing Bad News?; Difficulties in Understanding |
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Why Silence Is Sometimes the Best AnswerThe Decisive Question; Truthfulness and Trust; Allowing Space for Theories of Illness and Speaking with Each Other; The Bigger Picture: Turning Relatives into Allies; What Helps People to Assimilate Bad News?; Learning from Life Experience; Spirituality-Hope in Hopeless Times; Finishing and Documenting the Conversation; "Mommy Is Very Sick"; Examples from Outside Medicine; 3. On the Search for Good News; Changing Perspective; The Good Evening News; Finding the Good in the Bad-A Question of Timing; 4. Moscow |
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In Place of an Author's Biography: My Saddest, and Most Beautiful NewsAppendix: Help for Helpers, Recipients, and Relatives; Brief Summary of the SPIKES Method; Guidelines for Announcing a Death; Breaking Bad News: Seminars; Checklists for Communicating Bad News; Bibliography of Selected Scientific Research; Index |
| Summary |
As Head of Oncological Surgery and the Gynecology Clinic at Berlin's Charit Comprehensive Cancer Center, Jalid Sehouli is one of the world's leading cancer specialists. Every day, he experiences situations in which conversations take on a life-or-death significance. Delivering bad news is one of the most difficult tasks we face in life, especially for professionals such as doctors, police, or crisis intervention personnel, yet it is rarely touched on during training. Over the course of their career, a doctor will hold conversations with around 200,000 patients and their relatives that invariably involve delivering good or bad news. Either way, existential questions will arise, and the way the news is delivered is vital: recent studies show that it has a significant impact on patients' quality of life and the way they experience treatment. Mixing his wide-ranging professional experience with personal stories, Sehouli describes the emotions and perspectives of those who have to give and receive bad news from a broad perspective. His book can be helpful for anyone who has to deliver bad news--managers, friends, or parents |
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Includes index |
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Professor Dr. med. h.c. Jalid Sehouli is a German gynecologist and oncologist who specializes in peritoneal and ovarian cancer. He is a professor at the famous Berlin's Charité Hospital and a writer of scientific as well as philosophic works |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 26, 2019) |
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Physician and patient.
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Communication in medicine.
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Bad news.
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Empathy.
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Nurturing behavior.
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Misinformation.
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Communication
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Empathy
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Physician-Patient Relations
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Attitude of Health Personnel
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empathy.
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MEDICAL -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
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MEDICAL -- Oncology.
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Nurturing behavior
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Empathy
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Bad news
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Communication in medicine
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Physician and patient
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Block-Harley, Noah, translator
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| ISBN |
100069934X |
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9780429341083 |
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0429341083 |
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9781000699821 |
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100069982X |
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9781000699586 |
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1000699587 |
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9781000699340 |
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