{"id":13399,"date":"2019-06-12T07:36:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13399"},"modified":"2019-06-12T07:36:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:36:53","slug":"never-say-die-why-so-many-doctors-wont-break-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13399","title":{"rendered":"Never Say \u2018Die\u2019: Why So Many Doctors Won\u2019t Break Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By JoNel Aleccia for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 After nearly 40 years as an internist, Dr. Ron Naito knew what the sky-high results of his blood test meant. And it wasn\u2019t good.<\/p>\n<p>But when he turned to his doctors last summer to confirm the dire diagnosis \u2014 stage 4 pancreatic cancer \u2014 he learned the news in a way no patient should.<\/p>\n<p>The first physician, a specialist Naito had known for 10 years, refused to acknowledge the results of the \u201coff-the-scale\u201d blood test that showed unmistakable signs of advanced cancer. \u201cHe simply didn\u2019t want to tell me,\u201d Naito said.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/never-say-die-why-so-many-doctors-wont-break-bad-news\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=73600879&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9JwaT_W2fcFI4YxgQiYHrpaYmy9oqoeTnqYL7z1f_U6plz_FPzeeFaC4saochaFV9EPFr77BIpPoYJh-9cv6O9AONRBQ&amp;_hsmi=73600879\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By JoNel Aleccia for Kaiser Health News) PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 After nearly 40 years as an internist, Dr. Ron Naito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13400,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399\/revisions\/13400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}