Narrative review highlights effective strategies for delivering bad news in family practice, suggesting improvements in patient-centred communication and cultural awareness.
Family doctors must be able to communicate bad news with empathy, clarity, and cultural awareness if they are to assist patients and their families facing life-altering conditions. Focusing on well-established communicative processes, creative models, and practical uses in family practice, this narrative review compiles the most current studies on effective ways to convey bad news. Based on material published between 2015 and 2025, we investigate techniques including the SPIKES protocol, ABCDE model, and culturally appropriate procedures, supplemented by case scenarios. The key findings underline the need of interdisciplinary cooperation, patientcentred communication, and training to increase clinician confidence in practice survival Day-to-day life. Noted are telehealth and cross-cultural communication deficiencies with recommendations for more research and application; This assessment aims to advise family doctors on how to foster trust and resilience during challenging discussions with intersection everything in between life and death.
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