Mastering Communication With Seriously Ill Patients - Balancing Honesty With Empathy and Hope

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book guides the physician through the daunting communication challenges of explaining life-threatening illness to patients and families. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Taking your skills to the next level; 2. Getting a good start; 3. Talking about serious news; 4. Making treatment decisions; 5. Discussing prognosis; 6. Between the big events; 7. Conducting a family conference; 8. Dealing with conflicts; 9. Transitions to end of life care; 10. Talking about dying; 11. Cultivating your skills.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Arnold, Anthony Back, Anthony Arnold Back, James Tulsky
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521706186
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70618-6
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Print on Demand
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine