Breaking bad news to cancer patients in times of COVID-19.

Hauk, Helen; Bernhard, Jürg; McConnell, Meghan; Wohlfarth, Benny (2021). Breaking bad news to cancer patients in times of COVID-19. Supportive care in cancer, 29(8), pp. 4195-4198. Springer-Verlag 10.1007/s00520-021-06167-z

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Breaking bad news is a mandatory provision in the professional life of nearly every physician. One of its most frequent occasions is the diagnosis of malignancy. Responding to the recipients' emotions is a critical issue in the delivery of unsettling information, and has an impact on the patient's trust in the treating physician, adjustment to illness and ultimately treatment. Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, several measures of social distancing and isolation have been introduced to our clinical setting. In the wake of these restrictions, it is important to reexamine existing communication guidelines to determine their applicability to face-to-face counseling in the context of social distancing, as well as to new communication technologies, such as telemedicine. We address these issues and discuss strategies to convey bad news the most empathetic and comprehensible way possible.

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