Doctors also suffer when giving bad news to cancer patients

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-63

  Espinosa, E ^a   Gonzalez Baron M ^a   Zamora, P ^a   Ordonez A ^a   Arranz, P ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cancer communication; Psychological stress in doctors; Truth disclosure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEAR; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MENTAL STRESS; NEOPLASM; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

FEAR; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0029691718     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01769878     Document Type: Article

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