Breaking bad news in oncology: like a walk in the twilight? Oncology / ESMO

摘要

While communicating good news is a pleasurable experience in our everyday lives, professional or private, communicating bad news is an uncomfortable experience for both the giver and the receiver.The expression 'bad news', used to describe difficult communications, is open to interpretation and misunderstanding since it seems to refer to a one off communication instead of a process and because it evokes the idea of an impersonal transmission of information.