The present study evaluated the perceptions and practice of 92 final year pediatric residents with regard to breaking bad news. Only 16% of residents had received any training in communication skills. Majority (65%) of the residents were not comfortable while breaking bad news.

We analyze a game of persuasion which combines information acquisition and adverse selection. The sender can credibly transmit any information she gathers but cannot directly reveal her type to the receiver. Her payoff depends both on the news content and her perceived ability. We show that a sanitization equilibrium in which the sender reveals good news and conceals bad news prevails for mild ...

In situations where noisy signals of some underlying variable are observed, Paul Milgrom (The Bell Journal of Economics, 12(2): 380–391) showed that a higher signal implies a higher posterior (in the sense of first-order stochastic dominance) for every non-degenerate prior if and only if the conditional distribution satisfies the strict monotone likelihood ratio property (MLRP). We show that fo...

" Ladies and gentleman, this is your captain speaking. I have some good news and I have some bad news. The good news is, that we have a very strong tail wind, and we are doing one thousand four hundred miles per hour over land. The bad news is, that all of our navigation instruments are out, and we don't know where we are, and we don't know where we are going. " Joseph Weizenbaum " Rebel at Wor...