Doctors' stress responses and poor communication performance in simulated bad-news consultations.

Rhonda Brown; Stewart Dunn; Karen Byrnes; Richard Morris; Paul Heinrich; Joanne Shaw

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Doctors' stress responses and poor communication performance in simulated bad-news consultations.

December 9, 2009

Brown R, Dunn S, Byrnes K, et al. Acad Med. 2009;84(11):1595-602.

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Disclosing bad news to patients resulted in significant physiological and psychological stress for physicians. Doctors who performed poorly in these simulated scenarios were more likely to be fatigued or report symptoms of burnout.

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