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MEDICAL: CARE :
BAD NEWS:
Delivering Bad News One of Medicine's Great Difficulties
Delivering Bad News One of Medicine's Great Difficulties
By Childs Walker and Scott Calvert
The Baltimore Sun
Story posted 2010.09.20 at 07:58 PM EDT
http://mobile.baltimoresun.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=
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The anguished mother pounded the floor at Johns Hopkins Hospital,
screaming, "Why, why, why?" Dr. John Wogan had just told her as gently as
he knew how that her teenage son was dead, the victim of a stray bullet
fired on the streets of Baltimore.
The next day the mother was dead herself, felled by a burst blood vessel
in her brain that Wogan believes resulted from the terrible, sudden stress
of learning her child was gone. Twenty years later the episode remains
etched in the doctor's memory.
"The news itself is just devastating sometimes," says Wogan, now an
attending physician in the emergency department at Greater Baltimore
Medical Center in Towson.
Wogan has never encountered anything like the violence that erupted
Thursday at Hopkins Hospital, when a spinal surgeon was shot by a
patient's son.
But the shooting of Dr. David B. Cohen has caused health care providers
around the region to reflect on those delicate interactions with patients
and families. Reponses range widely, and it's hard to predict which
emotions will emerge when a doctor must deliver news no one wants to hear.
"It does remind you that you are potentially in the same vulnerable
position that physician was in," Wogan says. "The thing this will do is
make people think about themselves and their safety, whereas before they
would be exclusively thinking about the patient."
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