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Navigating Difficult Conversations: Breaking Bad News and Exploring Goals of Care in Surgical Patients
1Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract:
Surgeons who provide care for patients with cancer are sometimes tasked with challenging conversations. Approaching difficult communications using a structured approach for delivering difficult news and exploring goals of care can help surgeons provide support to patients and their families.
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