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Communication can help patients but also harm them when they are confronted with a serious illness (via Twitter: Liesbeth van Vliet)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/15

I reacted to a Dutch [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @NL_Wetenschap on Thread Reader App (which has an excellent Google translation [Wayback/Archive]).

The responses mentioned these two interesting English papers and a nice YouTube video:

I have first hand experience from my cancer treatment period where despite having a companion and emphatic care takers, I did not comprehend large parts of the information.

Two tips:

  1. Ensure you and your caretakers are on the same “wavelength” communicating. If you don’t: politely ask for another caretaker in the team.
  2. Always bring a companion with you that knows your case very well.

The rest of this post is in Dutch containing the original tweets:

The scientist:

–jeroen


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