Mark Lewis, Director of Gastrointestinal Oncology at Intermountain Healthcare in Utah, shared a post on X:
“Much of the eye-opening Ben Sasse interview is instructive as to how not to communicate as an oncologist:
- get to the point quickly (before the ‘tinnitus of terror’ sets in) and
- make it clear that the primary and metastatic sites are the SAME cancer.”
Mark Lewis also added:
“I firmly believe that breaking bad news is an art and that its delivery needs to be adapted to each patient’s circumstances but sometimes we ‘think’ we’re being clearer than we really are (especially when the recipient’s amygdala is understandably overriding their higher cortex)”
Title: How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying
Hosted: Ross Douthat
Produced: Victoria Chamberlin
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