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Back, Anthony

 
9780521706186: Mastering Communication with Seriously Ill Patients Paperback: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope

Sinopsis

This book defines the specific communication tasks involved in talking with patients with life-threatening illnesses and their families. Topics include delivering bad news, transition to palliative care, discussing goals of advance-care planning and do-not-resuscitate orders, existential and spiritual issues, family conferences, medical futility, and other end of life conflicts.

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Anthony Back, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. He is also Director of the Program in Cancer Communication at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.

Robert Arnold, MD, is Leo H. Criep Professor and Director of the Institute for Doctor-Patient Communication at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is currently President of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

James Tulsky, MD, is Professor and Director of the Center for Palliative Care at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

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9780521880275: Mastering Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope

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ISBN 10:  0521880270 ISBN 13:  9780521880275
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2009
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