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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= 297&nid=22458796&cid=17076&scid=1956&ith=0&title=Top+Stories A shorter URL for the above link: http://tinyurl.com/39e4jqj 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." The complete article may be read at the URL above. Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [log in to unmask] http://daviddillard.businesscard2.com Net-Gold http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html Index: http://tinyurl.com/myxb4w http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold?hl=en http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold General Internet & Print Resources http://guides.temple.edu/general-internet COUNTRIES http://guides.temple.edu/general-country-info EMPLOYMENT http://guides.temple.edu/EMPLOYMENT TOURISM http://guides.temple.edu/tourism DISABILITIES http://guides.temple.edu/DISABILITIES INDOOR GARDENING http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/ Educator-Gold http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/ K12ADMINLIFE http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/ THE COLLEGE LEARNING CENTER http://tinyurl.com/yae7w79 Nina Dillard's Photographs on Net-Gold http://tinyurl.com/36qd2o and also http://gallery.me.com/neemers1 Net-Gold Membership Required to View Photos Twitter: davidpdillard Bushell, R. & Sheldon, P. (eds), Wellness and Tourism: Mind, Body, Spirit, Place, New York: Cognizant Communication Books. Wellness Tourism: Bibliographic and Webliographic Essay David P. Dillard http://tinyurl.com/p63whl http://tinyurl.com/ou53aw INDOOR GARDENING Improve Your Chances for Indoor Gardening Success http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/ http://groups.google.com/group/indoor-gardening-and-urban-gardening SPORT-MED https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/sport-med.html http://groups.google.com/group/sport-med http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sports-med/ http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/sport-med.html HEALTH DIET FITNESS RECREATION SPORTS TOURISM http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/healthrecsport/ http://groups.google.com/group/healthrecsport http://healthrecsport.jiglu.com/ http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/health-recreation-sports-tourism.html Please Ignore All Links to JIGLU in search results for Net-Gold and related lists. The Net-Gold relationship with JIGLU has been terminated by JIGLU and these are dead links. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/30664 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/healthrecsport/message/145 .