Physicians' use of indirect language to deliver medical bad news: an experimental investigation
This thesis examined the delivery of medical bad news as a situational dilemma. When physicians have to convey distressing information, they must apparently choose between two negative communicative alternatives: To convey the diagnosis directly may distress and harm the patient, but to deny the dia...
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2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/195 |