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• Training in difficult conversations: a national survey of pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatric critical care physicians.

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• Heart failure and palliative care: implications in practice.

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• Positive and negative religious coping and well-being in women with breast cancer.

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• Doctor-patient communication about advance directives in metastatic breast cancer.

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