How do you tell someone they are dying? An innovative new study shows how communication between end-of-life patients and their physicians depends on body language as much as words. Ruth Parry and Dr Marco Pino (pictured)video recorded the interactions and were interested to find the nuanced methods used by doctors in a hospice setting to help the patients understand their prognosis.
Further information:
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/ncare/projects/video-research.aspx
http://www.ruthparry.org.uk/
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156174&type=printable
