title: When spoken words fail.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: Tekla
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Les Jessica
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D055809:Illness Behavior; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D019365:Metaphor; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D010151:Paintings; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology