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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