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Title: Communication Phrases Near the End of Life-Pocket Card

Author(s): David E. Weissman, MD

This is a 5 1/2 by 8 1/4 inch card, designed to be carried in a white coat POCKET, containing suggested language to use by physicians when having end-of-life discussions with patients or surrogates. Reviewers wrote, "Overall, I really like these cards and think that housestaff and students will find them helpful. They provide suggestions that, in general, I agree with. I have actually gone ahead and "piloted" them with my local housestaff". Reviewers did caution that the card may be too large for the coat pocket and suggest reducing it.

To Obtain the Pocket Card

Send exact name of pocket card plus $2.00 per card 5.56% tax with each order to Rose Hackbarth, Division of Neoplastic Diseases, 9200 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53226; (414) 805-4607; E-mail rhackbar@mcw.edu.
Please make checks payable to:
The Medical College of Wisconsin

Creation Date: 2/2002

Format: Pocket Instructional Aids

Purpose: Instructional Aid, Self-Study Guide

Audience(s)

	Training: Fellows, 1st/2nd Year Medical Students, 3rd/4th Year Medical Students, PGY1 (Interns), PGY2-6, Physicians in Practice
	Specialty: Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Hematology/Oncology, Neurology, OB/GYN, Ophthalmology, Pulmonary/Critical Care, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Surgery
	Non-Physician: Nurses, Social Workers

ACGME Competencies: Interpersonal and Communication Skills, Patient Care

Keyword(s): Advance directives, Cross-cultural care, Death pronouncement, Decision making capacity/surrogates, Discussing hospice care, Do not rescucitate orders, Family conference, Giving bad news, Medicare hospice benefit, Negotiating treatment goals, Prognosis, Treatment withdrawal/withholding.