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Offering a rational and evidence based approach to the diagnostic process, this title returns the patient to the centre of diagnostic input and stresses interaction between doctor and patient.
Death is a topic people are reluctant to ponder. Neither is dying a process that is usually being openly discussed. However, on a variety of occasions, dying and death are on a person’s minds, under some sensitive circumstances, he or she are eager to discuss with a close person, a friend, a professional. The present volume, the second in the Series on Dying and Death, is meant to enrich personal experience of dying or death by providing its reader with knowledge and understanding of some aspects of dying or death. Section 1 describes practices of mourning, in different times and places: USA during the Civil War (Ashley Byock), the Island of Viz, between Croatia and Italy (Kathleen Young),...
My life has been so very interesting and mostly joyful. I would like to share it with my family. My birthday is May 7/33. As I start to write this I am 72 years young, and have had a very good life. I feel like my cup is full and overflowing. Sometimes I feel like I am drinking from the saucer, I would be very happy to keep sipping for some time yet. A person is very, very lucky to be able to say this. Now I shall go back in time and tell my life story as I remember, hoping you will enjoy.
This text applies a patient-centred approach, based on evidence and experience, applicable to this particular clinical topic. It provides patient-centred perspectives as an approach to the better understanding of the symptoms and their origins and consequences.
This volume addresses the issue of pragmatic meaning and interpretation in communication contexts regarding health and does so by combining a series of diverse and complementary approaches, which together highlight the relevance of successfully shared understanding to achieve more accessible, inclusive, and sustainable healthcare systems. The volume is divided into five thematic sections: 1) Analytical approaches to health communication, 2) Intercultural and mediated communication, 3) Negotiation and meaning construction, 4) Expertise and common ground, 5) Uncertainty and evasive answers, bringing together a group of top scholars on the much-debated issue of shared understanding both at the ...
This long awaited Third Edition fully illuminates the patient-centered model of medicine, continuing to provide the foundation for the Patient-Centered Care series. It redefines the principles underpinning the patient-centered method using four major components - clarifying its evolution and consequent development - to bring the reader fully up-to-
Emphasizing holistic philosophy, this important book encourages practitioners to surpass treatment based strictly on a one-dimensional, biomedical assessment of their patients. Among the topics covered are: conceptualizations of ill-health; consideration of the patient as an individual; the establishment of goals and cooperative strategy between physician and patient; and the realistic allocation of time, energy, and other resources of the health care provider.