'Living While Dying' episode 22: Teaching doctors
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Bruce Kramer felt that the doctor who first told him that he had ALS did not deliver the devastating news with the proper compassion.
Kramer decided to go back and give the doctor a critique on his bedside manner in the hope that future patients would have a better experience.
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