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.”