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Podcast: Mayo Clinic Talks
Episode: Handle with Care to Giving Bad News
Description: Host: Darryl S. Chutka, M.D. [@chutkaMD]
Guest: Amanda K. Lorenz, M.D.
Giving our patients bad or unexpected news is one of the most difficult, but also one of the most important responsibilities we have as health care clinicians. This is when our patients need us the most and we need to do this with compassion and empathy. This is best done face to face and ideally once we have established a good relationship with our patient. Unfortunately, this isn’t always possible. A clinician in the emergency department telling a patient they’ve suff...