Analysis on the Status and Dilemmas of Breaking the Bad News about Cancer
10.12026/j.issn.1001-8565.2023.05.12
- VernacularTitle:癌症坏消息告知的现状及其告知困境的评析
- Author:
Jiaman SUN
1
;
Lihua LI
2
;
Linling YANG
1
;
Junrong LIU
3
Author Information
1. School of Nursing, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510182, China
2. Department of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Cancer Hospital and Institute of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510095, China
3. School of Marxism, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 511436, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Break Bad News;
Informed Dilemma;
Doctor-patient Relationship;
Doctor-patient Communication
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2023;36(5):540-547
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
As one of the important contents and links of doctor-patient communication, the quality of breaking bad news will affect the development of doctor-patient relationship. Bad news informed not only involves the feedback of clinical medical diagnosis results, but also involves special knowledge training and clinical experience accumulation, as well as ethical, legal, social custom and other factors. At present, it is still a difficult problem troubling physicians in the medical environment. From the different perspectives of doctors, patients and family members, this paper sorted out the domestic and international status of breaking bad news, revealed its internal dilemmas, and summarized the informing strategies to cope with these dilemmas, with a view to providing references for hospital managers and medical staff to earlier identify and properly inform, helping both doctors and patients to get rid of the dilemma of notification and improve the doctor-patient relationship.
