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In a small room at Orlando Health, a somber scene unfolds: Dr. Morgan Wilber has to tell a mom and dad that their child is brain-dead. But the “parents” are really professional actors, helping Wilber, an emergency medicine resident at Orlando Health, sharpen one of the most difficult and important skills in medical communication: giving…

says Anthony Orsini, DO, a neonatologist at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, N.J. Orsini is the founder of the Breaking Bad News (BNN) program – a model he developed to train both residents and experienced physicians in the oft-neglected art of sensitively and effectively communicating bad medical news. Training consists of an individual 45-minute session that includes improvisational role-playing…

Communication skills are often difficult to master, and it is a skill that few people are trained in. With that notion comes a four-letter word: HOPE.  The BBN Foundation hopes to change that for the medical world; they teach physicians how to properly deliver bad news to patients, while still shining some light on a negative situation.…

On Thursday October 24th, The BBN Foundation, founded by Dr. Anthony Orsini, hosted its inaugural gala “The Moment of Compassionate Truth” to raise funds in order to promote education on compassionate communication between healthcare professionals, patients, and families. The gala was hosted at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in West Orange, New Jersey and was a huge…

Has a doctor ever said something so insensitive that you remember it even years later? Unfortunately, I think many of us have had that experience. The fact is, most doctors haven’t been trained to communicate with patients and families effectively, and even fewer have been taught how to break bad news. But last week I…

The BBN Foundation (Breaking Bad News) announces that the Foundation for Morristown Medical Center has awarded a grant to the Department of Surgery at Morristown Medical Center and the Department of Pediatrics at Goryeb Children’s Hospital to be used for training young physicians to more effectively and sensitively communicate bad news to patients and families.…

NEWTON — Dr. Anthony Orsini along with a team of observers from Newton Medical Center, monitored spoken messages as well as hand gestures, body language and other communicative actions through a video series as part of the “Developing Doctor-Patient Relationships through Better Communication” program, a special training initiative that gives physicians a unique perspective on how…

Morristown Medical Center pairs real physicians with performances based on actual cases. Years ago, it was called bedside manner, a reference to when doctors would share medical news with patients as they lay prone in their beds. Still today doctors are called on to deliver difficult news to patients and families, training they might not…

NEWTON — The husband was restless and impatient. As he tried to convince not only his wife, but himself, that nothing was wrong, the message that his heart had an abnormal rhythm was not something he wanted to hear from the hospitalist. Nor did he want to hear the physician’s recommendation that more tests be…