To Be Diagnosed With A Malignant Disease: A Life Crisis Should The Bad News Be Broken?

Volume: 11 Number: 3 September 1, 2003
  • Ulgen H. Okyavuz
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To Be Diagnosed With A Malignant Disease: A Life Crisis Should The Bad News Be Broken?

Abstract

cancer is a life crisis for many people, Studies have shown that three out of every four families will one day be touched by cancer. That means every one can be involved in at least one close relationship with sorneone who has this malignancy. During this life threatened experience, patient-doctor communication has a cruciai importance, particularly at the moment breaking bad news and this communication also have implications for the well-being of patients and family members. Breaking bad news İs a difficult task for the physcians beacuse of context, the characteristics of patient-doctor communication, the patient's reactions, not to know how to cope with thin kind of situaiions and the others. Clİnical experiences and literatüre have shown that breaking bad news generally were done badly because of fear of blamed, of the unknown of expression of emotions and of not knowing ali the ansvvers as well as personal fear of iliness and death. As mentioned İn the literatüre there are three methods of breaking bad nevre approach: the blunt and unfeeling way, the kind and sad way, and the understanding and positive way. Recommendations has been made that the news should be presented in a thoughtful, caring and sensitive way that shows respect and the empaty for the receivers. Recently communication skills and medica! practice have become an area of intense interest and emphasized that there is at present liitle traîning on the process of delivering bad nevvs.

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Turkish

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Ulgen H. Okyavuz This is me

Publication Date

September 1, 2003

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September 1, 2003

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Year 2003 Volume: 11 Number: 3

APA
Okyavuz, U. H. (2003). ÖLÜMCÜL HASTALIK TANISI ALMAK: BİR YAŞAM KRİZİ KÖTÜ HABER VERİLMELİ Mİ? Kriz Dergisi, 11(3), 29-35. https://doi.org/10.1501/Kriz_0000000198