虽然治疗方式从药物到心脏移植有很多,但高达40%的患者在确诊一年内去世,心力衰竭的生存率比许多癌症都低。
Treatments range from drugs to transplants but with up to 40 per cent of those affected dying within a year of diagnosis, heart failure has worse survival rate than many cancers.
道歉是如此重要,以至于很多家医院都培训他们的员工在出现医疗差错后要对患者及其家属表示歉意,因为院方发现这么做可以阻止他们对医疗事故提起诉讼。
Apologies are so important that many hospitals train their staffs to say they are sorry to patients and their families following a medical mistake because they've found it deters malpractice lawsuits.
以前有很多针对这些患者的训练都并不成功,一篇即将发表在《心理科学》杂志上的论文将告诉我们这是为什么。
Training, however, has not been successful, and a paper to be published in the journal Psychological Science suggests why.
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