BACKGROUND Breaking bad news is one of the most stressful and difficult things a physician has to do. Good communication skills are required in order to ensure that bad news is delivered in a humane but effective way. OBJECTIVES This study was designed to explore the preferences and attitude of the Saudi population toward receiving bad news. Second, it was to identify the associations between...

OBJECTIVE To explore patient's perspectives and expectations from physicians with respect to breaking of bad news. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was carried out in the Community Health Centre of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Pakistan. All consenting individuals from 18 to 60 years of age were interviewed on the basis of a structured, pre-tested questionnaire. RESULTS The response ...

Hard physical learning problems have been introduced as an alternative option to implement cryptosystems based on hard problems. Their high-level idea is use inexact computing generate erroneous computations directly, rather than first compute correctly and add errors afterwards. Previous works focused the applicability of this Learning Parity with Noise (LPN) problem a step, formalized it Phys...

In this paper, I develop an option-pricing model that formally incorporates a disclosure event. The model suggests that an understanding of a firm’s disclosure policies can aid in effi ciently pricing its options. The reason is that these policies impact the distributions of jumps in the firm’s equity price, which affect the expected payoff to the firm’s options. Specifically, I find that 1) mo...

BACKGROUND The breaking and receipt of bad news is little referred to in the mental health literature, particularly from a service user perspective. AIMS This project aimed to gain understanding of service users' experiences of receiving good and bad news from mental health professionals. METHOD Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted in which mental health service users recounted key...

UNLABELLED Communicating "bad news" to patients and their families can be difficult for physicians. OBJECTIVE This qualitative study aimed to examine residents' perceptions of barriers to delivering bad news to patients and their family members. DESIGN Two focus groups consisting of first- and second-year medical and surgical residents were conducted to explore residents' perceptions of the...