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How to tell patients bad news: the strategy of “forecasting”

Douglas W. Maynard, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 1997, 64 (4) 181-182;
William S. Wilke
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Douglas W. Maynard
Dr. Maynard is a professor of sociology at Indiana University who has been researching the communication of bad (and good) news for more than 10 years. He has published numerous studies about how such news is delivered and received in the context of professional and nonprofessional encounters.
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