The doctors recommend talking with terminal patients about death and not to consider this conversation as a professional failure. These conversations can have a major psychological support.
The British Royal College of physicians recommend that physicians be more active in talking with their patients about their impending death. We are talking about the terminally ill, which left no hope. According to experts, College, confidence is one of the main barriers due to which many medical personnel from students to experienced consultants feel uncomfortable when doing these kinds of conversations. Some doctors absolutely refuse to have these conversations, because I think that the theme of death in this context is literally the recognition of their own incompetence and failure, because the patients expect from the doctors the ability to cure any disease.
According to statistics from the College, half of all deaths in the UK occur in hospitals, and many patients fall back in the last year of life. That is why doctors and other medical professionals must have appropriate knowledge to undertake such a sensitive dialogue, of course, at an appropriate time. The experts found evidence that if these conversations are carried out skilfully and professionally, it helps patients to feel more relief and mentally less helplessness in relation to their own destiny.
It is considered that people are afraid of talking about their own death, but it is not so, as practice shows. In Western medical institutions with patients made to talk frankly about their prospects in the treatment of certain diseases that people had the opportunity to settle some things, to prepare the necessary documents, to say goodbye to all the relatives, fix some mistakes and make the long-planned things. In the Russian medical institutions traditionally patients not to say anything about the hopelessness of their condition, and thus to deceive these patients until the last moments of life. (READ MORE)