Communicating with terminal patients: Lessons from "wit" and students

Family Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 18-20

  Saab, Basem Roberto ^a   Usta, Jinan ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMOR; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; TERMINAL DISEASE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 31544445244     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: 07423225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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