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QJM 2005 98(5):385-386; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hci056
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Breaking the news

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We all commiserated as our colleague told us about her awful consultation the previous day. She had had to tell a man in his fifties that his ultrasound scan had shown a mass in the head of his pancreas, almost certainly a carcinoma. The man clearly hadn't been expecting bad news, and had turned up at the surgery on his own, with a rather jaunty manner. To make matters worse, she had never met the man previously—she was covering for someone else that day. We squirmed and offered our sympathy as she described the encounter unfolding from moment to moment. She was honest enough . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John Launer


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