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Communicating bad news across cultures

Neurology Today March 19, 2020
Julia Durrant, M.D., discuss challenges, advice for communicating difficult news to patients and families. She says: “Instead of beginning the conversation by saying, ‘Here are the illnesses your loved one is going through,’ and focusing first on those, we brought up the fact that we couldn't do dialysis very early on”.

Oregon hospitals seek shelter-in-place order from governor

The Bulletin March 19, 2020
The Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems called on Gov. Kate Brown to issue a shelter-in-place order requiring most businesses to close and Oregonians to hunker down in their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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