This article discusses the manner and actual wording used by health-care providers in
communicating difficult information as it relates to end-of-life discussions. Several examples …

Although shared decision making (SDM) is advocated and adopted widely in the American
healthcare system, SDM can be strained and even avoided when medical decisions involve …

Bioethical literature grapples with many difficult issues intrinsic to the terminal patient
context, but little attention is paid to the effect of physician ethics on physician …

Healthcare around the world is currently experimenting with the development of culturally
and linguistically competent workforces and systems of care (eg 1). Fundamental to this …

Background Older patients often experience sub-standard communication in the palliative
phase of illness. Due to the importance of good communication in patient-centred end-of-life …

Complex layers of meaning accompany conversations about illness and medicine in
medical encounters. The complexity multiplies in multilingual healthcare encounters when …

The discourse analysis of end-of-life discussions presented here describes the interplay
between the institutional order and interactional order in American medicine, following …

Objective The academic debate on cross-cultural interaction within the context of end-of-life
care takes for granted that this interaction is challenging. However, few empirical studies …

Good communication is at the core of palliative care, providing a medium for clinicians to
express their concern and respect for patients that honors the mission of medicine. The …

Background: Little guidance is available for health care providers who try to communicate
with patients and their families in a culturally sensitive way about end‐of‐life care. Objective …