Doctors deliver bad news to parents ‘too late’
One-third of parents felt they'd not said their goodbyes, according to Danish survey
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One in 10 bereaved parents hadn’t realised their child was dying until the event itself, according to a survey that suggests doctors may be leaving it too late to deliver bad news.
Almost one-third of parents felt they were deprived of the chance to properly say goodbye, the Danish survey of 193 mothers and fathers found.