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Mastering Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope

  1. Neil Abramson, MD
  1. From Baptist Cancer Institute, Jacksonville, Florida.

Back A, Arnold R, Tulsky J. 168 pages. New York: Cambridge Univ Pr; 2009. $45.00. ISBN 9780521706186. Order at www.cambridge.org/us/.

Field of medicine: Patient–physician communications, care of seriously ill patients, hematology and oncology, and death and dying.

Format: Paperback.

Audience: Clinicians, physician extenders, nurses, and medical students, as …

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