E. Vegni Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, San Paolo Hospital, via Rudinì 8, 20142 Milan, Italy Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore GPs’ perspectives on giving bad news during consultations. To this end, 168 GPs were asked to recall, and record on the first page of a questionnaire, an occasion when they had given medically related bad news to a patient. The stories we...
