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Delivering Bad News: Can We Do Better?

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Bad news in the context of health care has been broadly defined as significant information that negatively alters people’s perceptions of the present or future. Effectively delivering bad news requires excellent communication skills. Evidence shows that bad news is frequently given inadequately (Chumpitazi et al., Cureus 8:e595, 2016).

We describe a case of bad news delivering in an extreme scenario of treating a young boy that suffered from multiple trauma caused by war injury in the Syrian civil war. This case needed the cooperation of health-care givers from different disciplines, and though it has been a rare situation, it might teach us how to handle bad news delivering to patients.

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  1. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Joseph Pikkel, F. Issa & Y. Ben Shoushan

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  1. General Director, Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Israel

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  2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Israel

    Alexander Lerner

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Pikkel, J., Issa, F., Ben Shoushan, Y. (2017). Delivering Bad News: Can We Do Better?. In: Zarka, S., Lerner, A. (eds) Complicated War Trauma and Care of the Wounded . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53339-1_30

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