Original Article

Communication with the Fatally Ill

Authors: ADRIAAN VERWOERDT M.D.

Abstract

This may be helpful reading for the physician who has doubts of what to tell the patient with a fatal illness, and how and when to tell it. There is described much of the Art of medicine.

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