Breaking Bad News

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

When a doctor reveals a terminal diagnosis to a patient -- that process is as delicate a procedure as any surgery, with potentially serious consequences if things go wrong.

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible.
0:02.0	I'm Roman Mars.
0:04.0	Come in.
0:06.0	Hey, how are you?
0:08.0	Good.
0:10.0	Nice to see you. Imagine you're in a hospital room, waiting to hear the results of a test you had.
0:15.0	The doctor comes in.
0:16.0	I know the last time you were here two weeks ago.
0:18.0	Yeah.
0:19.0	One of the things that we did was a psychobical onoscopy.
0:21.0	Yeah, it was not fun. You might sense on some level what's about to happen.
0:29.6	You know, I got the results back and reviewed them with Dr. Lou.
0:33.0	And this is difficult for me to say because unfortunately I have some bad news to tell you.
0:38.0	The muscles in your shoulders tense up.
0:41.0	Your hands suddenly feel clammy.
0:44.0	They found a mask in your descending colon.
0:46.0	Okay.
0:47.0	And so we did a biopsy.
0:49.0	And what a biopsy does it lets us know what kind of cells there are
0:52.0	to see if it's positive for cancer.
0:55.0	Okay.
0:56.0	And then you get some very bad news.
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