Co-written by Esther Waterhouse a Palliative Medicine consultant at Walsall healthcare NHS Trust. A recent TV documentary followed paramedics on a shift, providing insights into the wide range of situations…
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George West is a member of a group of patients, relatives, practitioners and researchers who advise the VERDIS research and Real Talk training team. George spent 51 years in engineering…
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Courageous conversations in palliative care include those where clinicians recognise and respond to emotional response to stress and distress, elicit concerns, respond empathically, and acknowledge and discuss uncertainty. These conversations…
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I work in a scientific field that has a lot to say about how people can and do talk about dying and death. This field is known as ‘conversation…
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Ruth Parry leads a team of researchers, educators and practitioners who work on the VERDIS programme of research on healthcare communication, and on the Real Talk communication training resources.
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