Talking With Your Older Patient: A Clinician's Handbook by National Institute of Aging - HTML preview
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Delivering bad news
l “I’m afraid the news is not good. The biopsy showed you have colon cancer.”
l “Unfortunately, there is no question about the results. You have emphysema.”
l “The report is back, and it’s not as we had hoped. It confirms that you have the early stages of Parkinson’s disease.”