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So back when I made the job-quitting comic book, something someone said got my mind working. A boss a level or two up said something like “…what a great way to soften the blow giving bad news!” When going over how the whole thing went later that day, it occurred to me that there is a real need for more fun ways to deliver really bad news. Immediately, I started thinking of products that could be created to help deliver bad news, and here is what I came up with.
For Medical Professionals
There may be very little that is more difficult than delivering bad news to a patient and their family. Not being emotionally attached, you are telling people that they will soon die, maybe even in a very painful fashion. You may even be telling someone’s family that despite your best efforts, you completely failed and now they don’t have a dad, wife or brand new baby. This doesn’t have to be so stressful for you, and who says bad news can’t be a little fun?
The Bad News Word Find is a great way to let your patients find out about their ailments gradually, while they are focused on the challenge of finding each and every word. Puzzles like “Paralysis Below the Waist” let patients find calming words right along-side the all important message you want to convey. With a little luck, maybe they’ll actually find “routine” or “low-risk” long before they find “never walk again”. This process really helps with the more challenging puzzles with themes like “Complications During Delivery” and “Accidental Decapitation”. For quicker or simplified message delivery, a Hangman activity book is also available.
The stress for those in the medical field doesn’t stop there. In addition to delivering bad news, the stress persists beyond the onset of symptoms or a procedure, and often continues through recovery and coping. For those serious patients in your exam rooms, very little comfort may be found within the pages of old editions of Motor Trend, Cosmopolitan or Highlights! magazine. Even serious patients could benefit from message oriented wall posters, that do more than depict the layout of your respiratory system. Posters like “Loss of Limbs” from the Living a Full Life Series focuses on this void, and provides patients with the kind of quiet reassurance that can really make a difference.The Kids. Won’t Someone Think of the Kids?
Receiving devastatingly bad news and coping are among the hardest things a person may have to face in their lifetime. Nowhere is this more true that with children. If you have to be the person tasked with delivering painful news to such a child, the heartbreak can be overwhelming. For these situations, the Bad News Pop-up Books can make things easier, and even a little entertaining. Using pictures that send clear messages to young children, understanding is made simple and clear. Youngsters really respond to the bright colors and playful themes, which can be important in their time of pain or loss.Death can be particularly difficult, particularly for children who have not had any experience with it yet. Early preparation using our books can provide information in easy to understand pieces, and let younger children know what to expect if they attend the funeral, a wake or go to visit their lost family member’s final resting place.
There are many types of loss, and the much more common and often devastating Divorce, is exactly the time when an entertaining little story can help in a seriously big way. Our Divorce themed books are available in so many common themes for kids to understand, including Differences, Imprisonment, Adultery and our new book about Coming Out.Products that can Help, in your time of Hurt.
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So was it apparent enough that those images were thumbnail/links to the larger images that this stupid article was written for? Was I assuming too much?
Added as a gallery at the bottom.
but now that i know, if the funny in those pics were cheese i’d be constipated for days.
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With the “click to view image” message people will be so used to seeing “click to view image larger” that they might not think there’s a point, because the smaller images are plenty clear. You probably need to label them “click to view entire image” for the casual browser who only ever reads things at about 43% attention anyhow.
Whacky formatting nightmare aside, I liked those a lot. The various positive spins in the loss of limbs ideas made me laugh the most, especially “wait” and “relax”. I love that relax is on grass instead of a sofa or bed. There’s something just wrong enough about that. I just love “wait” because of the idea it’s some kind of positive, active thing to do.
With the Medical Bad News thing it’s the writing that gets me. I don’t really know why “Paralysis Below the Waist” seems a particularly funny choice of ailment in that spot, but it is. I do know why “Accidental Decapitation” is funny and it got me good.
The gallery link isn’t showing up though. Don’t know what’s up there.
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Yeah, the comment about the images was because they were tiny thumbnails of the full versions with no text before. I’m not cramming all of that crap on the images, this site doesn’t attract THAT much stupid.
You do know that this is the comments thread for the WordPress article on the front page, right? So formatting, is not a result of having trouble on the board, its WordPress specific formatting tags not carrying over. -in the case of the Gallery link, it gets stripped out and replaced by gallery versions of the full images But there arent any different ones
One day, I’ll update the site again using the newest vB… maybe stuff like this will work mo bettah
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You do know that this is the comments thread for the WordPress article on the front page, right?
No, I didn’t. I used to go through the front page but I haven’t for a while because it seemed a little redundant when that Nov 2009 article was ever-present at the top so my bookmark has been going straight here to the forums for some time.
And that’s not a criticism by any means, I’m not saying to spend more valuable time posting more updates on the blog roll to keep it current, I’m just giving an illumination of the thought pattern of someone who comes to the site regularly. I come here for the forums shenanigans and to find shows and since you post announcements in the forums anyway it’s almost like the blog roll is a secondary feature that just happens to be on the front page.
Hope some of that makes sense. I mean, I think you’re a hilarious writer so if there was more regular stuff on the front I’d check in there more often, but if I had the choice I’d much rather have new shows going up when you have the spare time.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
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