Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations in Medicine: Strategies That Work in Breaking Bad News

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 or a serious or fatal illness, the death of a loved one in the hospital, or a disclosure of medical error.

This is a book about communication techniques that work in everyday clinical...