Difficult Conversations in Clinical Practice

You were trained to save a life. Were you ever trained to break the news?

Nobody signs you off for telling a family their father has died; yet you will do it, and a thousand other hard conversations, far more often than any procedure. This book treats them as what they are: a core clinical skill that can be learned.

Across nineteen chapters, Difficult Conversations in Clinical Practice blends real-feeling clinical stories with ready-to-use tools: the BRIDGE framework and the p…