Ask Tell Ask:
a communication strategy to both elicit what a patient/family understands and then explain/reaffirm what is known
Scenario
Mr. Jones has been in the hospital for 3-4 days and has become increasingly confused. He has metastatic cancer, and the physicians are worried about brain mets.
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- Ask and Tell Scenario 1
- Ask and Tell Scenario 2
Hope /Worry Statements
Empathetic statements that allow clinicians to align with the family while disclosing potential medical complications/poor prognosis
For example:
A patient who is 65 who is increasingly frail, and weak from his metastatic pancreatic cancer is admitted. His wife is hoping he can get more treatment.
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