title: How do we cope with death?
abstract: We hope that general practitioners will consider counselling their dying patients more actively, including those in hospital where terminal care may be poorly handled psychologically. This entails a major change in training which we hope is taking place through vocational training schemes. We feel a change in attitude to be necessary by many general practitioners who often deal with death by evasion and untruth.
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D006117:Grief; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013727:Terminal Care