<span itemprop="author">Cynthia Cooper, MD

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Letting your resident break the bad news

How do you learn to deliver the worst news anyone will ever hear? And equally important, how do you find the resilience to go on when difficult conversations don’t go well? My profession for the past 15 years has been to train the next generation of ph…

I’m grateful for your trust in me. I wish it didn’t require a cancer diagnosis to win it.

You are my favorite patient. You’re charming and funny. You proudly tell me you’ve just retired – having built multiple successful businesses from scratch. You were admitted to my service with rapidly progressive respiratory failure. Your C…