Communication problems of the chronically ill

Doring, L.A.

Australian Family Physician 21(6): 791-793

1992


ISSN/ISBN: 0300-8495
PMID: 1622361
Document Number: 390480
Patients with severe pain have a reduced capacity to communicate with doctors. These patients have depleted resources. Doctors are pressed for time. Patients not responding to treatment present doctors with communication tasks. Doctors need to persist gently in telling the 'unacceptable' bad news until it is reluctantly accepted.

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