Breaking Bad News - for iPod/iPhone

Breaking Bad News - for iPod/iPhone

How do you tell someone that they're dying? And how will they respond to the news? This series explores different ways of breaking bad news and looks at the impact of how the news is delivered has upon the person hearing it.

Episodes

August 12, 2015 4 mins
What is it like to be told you are going to die? Cancer-sufferer Lucy describes her illness, her reaction to being told that she would not recover and her feelings about the way this news was broken to her.
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Transcript -- What is it like to be told you are going to die? Cancer-sufferer Lucy describes her illness, her reaction to being told that she would not recover and her feelings about the way this news was broken to her.
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August 12, 2015 3 mins
How do you tell a parent that their child has died? In this film a policeman describes the way he broke the news of Rosie Brown's death to her mother and the techniques he uses to break bad news as well as possible.
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Transcript -- How do you tell a parent that their child has died? In this film a policeman describes the way he broke the news of Rosie Brown's death to her mother and the techniques he uses to break bad news as well as possible.
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August 12, 2015 3 mins
What's it like to receive the news that your child has died? One night Rosie Brown was late home. Her Mum describes hearing the knock at the door, describes her response to the way the policeman broke the news and reveals how she felt.
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Transcript -- What's it like to receive the news that your child has died? One night Rosie Brown was late home. Her Mum describes hearing the knock at the door, describes her response to the way the policeman broke the news and reveals how she felt.
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How do you tell someone that they are suffering from an incurable disease? When Lucy's results revealed that she would not recover from cancer the hospital consultant was forced to break some unwelcome news. In this film she describes the thought processes she went through as she prepared to tell Lucy.
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Transcript -- How do you tell someone that they are suffering from an incurable disease? When Lucy's results revealed that she would not recover from cancer the hospital consultant was forced to break some unwelcome news. In this film she describes the thought processes she went through as she prepared to tell Lucy.
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August 12, 2015 14 mins
How do you tell someone that they're dying? And how will they respond to the news? This series explores different ways of breaking bad news and looks at the impact of how the news is delivered has upon the person hearing it.
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Transcript -- How do you tell someone that they're dying? And how will they respond to the news? This series explores different ways of breaking bad news and looks at the impact of how the news is delivered has upon the person hearing it.
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