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Or the doctor could be in the room and act like somewhat of a human being and break the difficult news in a professional and socially accepted way.

• sodosopa 8y ago
  But that’s also a problem with a lot of physicians, from my experience they provide vague answers and hint around. For one of my recent family members, I pulled her social worker aside and said this is a binary yes or no, Should we call hospice? And even then after much handwringing, the physician blurted it out to my family member despite having health care PoA In a perfect scenario as it is on television a scholarly physician sits on the bedside, pats the patient’s knee and looks them in the eye and says, “we’ve done all we could”. I worked in health care for decades, while not in a care role, I went through and managed some of the training programs to improve bedside manner/customer service. I had to document each physician as they spoke with my family member. Because of two of the three experiences they were eager to turn over the bed instead of providing compassionate care