Physicians Should Stop Breaking Bad News

Affiliations

¹ NYU Long Island School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA. jeffreyt.berger@nyulangone.org.
² NYU Long Island School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.

Jeffrey T Berger et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Oct.

. 2022 Oct;37(13):3475-3476.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07566-6. Epub 2022 Apr 11.

¹ NYU Long Island School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA. jeffreyt.berger@nyulangone.org.
² NYU Long Island School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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