@cgraydoc @psirides Many years ago, I heard someone break the news of a patient’s death with the line.. “I’m afraid they’ve moved on to Rose Cottage”..

@lancs7 @psirides Oh dear.

@cgraydoc @DrLindaDykes @psirides Brilliant my friend. Grief does not need ‘fixing’ it needs supporting

@cgraydoc @DrLindaDykes @psirides I truly appreciate this. When my dad died last year I refused to use euphemisms when talking about it to anyone. He’d died. He was dead. However, when my cat died 2 months later he’d definitely passed OTRB or 🌈.

@cgraydoc @DrLindaDykes @psirides Heard a colleague once say, at a residential address, “he’s gone to a better place”. As if living with this wife for 50+ years in their family home just wasn’t enough. Horrid.

@cgraydoc @psirides I’m a little surprised that this needs saying but pleased that’s its being said.

@cgraydoc @JJcolemanMD @psirides I say died,, i use it for people and pets too. Passed? I passed tests. Passed a note.

@cgraydoc @psirides We are becoming over-prescriptive in EOL & OD-going in with some key phrases/statements help esp. if new to culture-otherwise empathy and transparency will find its own expressions in a given cultural context-in many parts of 🌍 if u just turn up&use D word,you may get beaten up!

@cgraydoc @JJcolemanMD @psirides Simple unambiguous words used in a sympathetic way. I have seen all kinds of unintended consequences when we get things wrong. He’s gone or He’s passed is wrong.

@cgraydoc @psirides There are many approaches to discussing the death of a patient with the family. Yours is one of many that works well for you.

@cgraydoc @Matt_Paramedic @psirides Completely agree. Do you find it beneficial to follow a structure when breaking bad news?

@cgraydoc @psirides My mum rang me at work about my Nan who so, so special to me. She told me she’d passed away. There was nothing wrong with that, and I still use it to describe her death.