breaking bad news!!

i was reading an article in medscape and i found this title: breaking bad news
as a doctor there will be some unavoidable incidents whereby you have to(must) convey the bad news(especially dying news) to your patients or their relative and friends...

so as a medical students, how much have we learn to bring the bad news to others?we might only see this on the movies, we never been taught about this in medical school, except when you meet it clinically.(which we usually don't go to see how a doctor / surgeon inform the bad news)

hereby are some ways to bring the bad news in more comfort way(without mentioning the word 'die', or 'death'), but still eventually means you will be gone sooooon

What Doctors Say in Discussions With a Dying Patient— Excerpts From a Role Playing Exercise

What the Physician Said: What the Physician Meant: Most people with this disease will have problems soon...Time could be very short—a few weeks to a few months. I think it is advisable to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. You are dying Your time may be short You are dying If there were a hundred people in your situation, most of those people would have major problems within one month or so...let's consider that we are now at Labor Day. By the time we get to late September, early October, I would expect that you would be having major challenges or problems. You are dying Certainly, it sounds like the disease is really threatening your life You are dying

so fellow friends out there, if you hear this from a doctor(or maybe someone else like gangster??) it means your life is in danger