How the EMS Provider Can Deliver Bad News

 


 

W. Ann "Winnie" Maggiore, JD, NREMT-P | | Tuesday, December 23, 2008


Death. It's the one thing that happens to everyone. There are no exceptions, and it's the one thing that absolutely everyone avoids talking about.

This is particularly true in




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W. Ann "Winnie" Maggiore, JD, NREMT-PWinnie Maggiore is an attorney and paramedic in Albuquerque. She is a shareholder at the law firm of Butt, Thornton & Baehr, PC where she defends physicians, dentists, oral surgeons, nurses, paramedics and other health care providers, as well as law enforcement officers, against lawsuits and administrative enforcement actions. She is an author of many EMS legal publications, a member of the JEMS editorial board, and holds a volunteer faculty position in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of New Mexico.

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