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Feeling a little nervously crazed after being burned by my attending this morning while presenting a patient: I didn't know how to interpret the results of her peritoneal fluid analysis.
Then we had to go to a seminar where we learn how to break bad news to someone by remembering the pneumonic "SPEAK The TRUTH"
1 Set the stage
2 Prepare
3 Asses the situation
4 K
5 Therapeutic silence (count to ten silently)
6 T
7 Respond with empathy
8 Unify the support system
9 Totally commit yourself to followthrough
10 H
I forgot what the rest of them stand for, but I think T stands for therapeutic/diagnostic paracentesis, and H stands for hit someone.
I am a frightened robot.
Then we had to go to a seminar where we learn how to break bad news to someone by remembering the pneumonic "SPEAK The TRUTH"
1 Set the stage
2 Prepare
3 Asses the situation
4 K
5 Therapeutic silence (count to ten silently)
6 T
7 Respond with empathy
8 Unify the support system
9 Totally commit yourself to followthrough
10 H
I forgot what the rest of them stand for, but I think T stands for therapeutic/diagnostic paracentesis, and H stands for hit someone.
I am a frightened robot.