Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations in Medicine: Strategies That Work in Breaking Bad News [With DVD ROM]

by Robert Buckman

Book Overview

Winner, 2011 American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award for Physicians

Although they receive extensive clinical training, medical practitioners are given little or no instruction about the best way to break bad news. In this book and DVD set, Robert Buckman, author of How to Break Bad News, offers solid, practical, and practicable guidelines for such conversations as the diagnosis of a serious or fatal illness, the death...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801895588
• ISBN13: 9780801895586
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"