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November 9, 2025JAMA0 citations

Sliver of Hope

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APAditya S. Pawar

Key Points

  • Improved communication leads to better patient understanding of transplant eligibility.
  • Health status assessment is crucial in determining transplant candidacy for patients.
  • Narrative medicine emphasizes the importance of sharing difficult news sensitively with patients.
  • Training in communication may enhance the transplant nephrologist's approach to patient interactions.

Abstract

In this narrative medicine essay, a transplant nephrologist relates how his reticence to tell a patient that her worsening health status rendered her ineligible for a transplant strengthened his resolve to better communicate bad news with his patients.

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Aditya S. Pawar (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/690fdcdaf60c54d04ea38026https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.20418
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