In responding to this question, physicians perform two distinct and critically important tasks:
Prior research shows that each of these tasks is challenging to physicians and may result in patients having unrealistically optimistic expectations about their survival.
Please see a video clip of the interaction:
In order to increase knowledge about how best to respond to and alleviate the suffering of seriously ill patients, we have created a free training module on Physician Assisted Death.
Dr. W. Richard Scott, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology, shares a very personal story of the last stages of life of his beloved brother Charles Scott.
As medicine becomes more complex and specialized by the minute, the communication gulf between doctors and their patients is becoming progressively insurmountable.
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