Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations in Medicine: Strategies That Work in Breaking Bad News For each of several scenarios, Buckman supplies alternativ.Although they receive extensive clinical training, medical practitioners are given little or no instruction about the best way to break bad n
Robert Buckman, M.D., Ph.D. (1948–2011),was an oncologist and professor at the University of Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital. He was the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters as well as of books, including How to Break Bad News, What You Really Need to Know about Cancer, and Human Wildlife, all three published by Johns Hopkins.