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Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations in Medicine
Robert Buckman
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Description for Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations in Medicine
Based on sound, proven strategies and peppered throughout with illustrative examples, Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations in Medicine provides the tools and knowledge necessary to start and sustain a genuine conversation at a moment when the first thought is "I have no idea what to say now." Num Pages: 160 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBDP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
Although they receive extensive clinical training, medical practitioners are given little or no instruction about the best way to break bad news. In this book and DVD set, Robert Buckman, author of How to Break Bad News, offers solid, practical, and practicable guidelines for such conversations as the diagnosis of a serious or fatal illness, the death of a loved one in the hospital, or a disclosure of medical error. This is a book about communication techniques that work in everyday clinical practice. It is not a series of prefabricated scripts but a collection of strategies and approaches ... Read more
Although they receive extensive clinical training, medical practitioners are given little or no instruction about the best way to break bad news. In this book and DVD set, Robert Buckman, author of How to Break Bad News, offers solid, practical, and practicable guidelines for such conversations as the diagnosis of a serious or fatal illness, the death of a loved one in the hospital, or a disclosure of medical error. This is a book about communication techniques that work in everyday clinical practice. It is not a series of prefabricated scripts but a collection of strategies and approaches ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801895579
SKU
V9780801895579
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-32
About Robert Buckman
Robert Buckman, M.D., Ph.D., is an oncologist and professor at the University of Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital. He is the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and books, including How to Break Bad News, What You Really Need to Know about Cancer, and Human Wildlife, all three of which are also published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations in Medicine
Buckman offers the tools and knowledge base to help a medical practitioner start and maintain a professional conversation during extremely sensitive times and circumstances... Highly recommended. Choice 2011 Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations aims to ground its ideas firmly within the real world of clinical medicine. All of the examples are set in real situations and this is the book's ... Read more