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Using Simulation for Disclosure of Bad News

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Educating the medical community with regard to disclosure of medical errors, unanticipated outcomes, and/or bad news has become a priority for physician educators; and a popular topic over the last decade. Unfortunately, physicians and surgeons are not well equipped to deliver this difficult news due to inadequate training. It is not surprising that litigation, humiliation, and stress burden those charged with this responsibility. Today, patients, accreditation standards, laws, and hospital policies require explicit and candid communication after such events are recognized.

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Acknowledgments:

I thank all the authors of “Framing family conversations after early diagnosis of iatrogenic and incidental findings” published in Surgical Endoscopy April 2009. Their invaluable contributions to the article served as the foundation for this chapter.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance, 1493 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Limaris Barrios MD (Instructor in Surgery)

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  1. , Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, 1100 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19107, Pennsylvania, USA

    David S. Tichansky, MD, FACS

  2. Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, Pasteur Drive 300, Stanford, 94305, USA

    John Morton, MD, MPH

  3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School, Brookline Ave. 330, Boston, 02215-5400, Massachusetts, USA

    Daniel B. Jones

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Barrios, L. (2012). Using Simulation for Disclosure of Bad News. In: Tichansky, MD, FACS, D., Morton, MD, MPH, J., Jones, D. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Quality, Outcomes and Patient Safety. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7901-8_51

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