Crying in my Car—Poetry vs Distancing Campo, Rafael
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association,
06/2023, Letnik:
329, Številka:
22
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Campo discusses the poem "Birds". The poet, a medical trainee, struggles to balance caring about her patients with the clinical distance she's been taught to maintain to take care of them. This ...familiar tension might be traced to Sir William Osler, revered exemplar of clinical practice, who advocated "cool detachment" to the point of suppressing facial expressions when treating patients. Medical sociologists and educators expanded on and advanced "detached concern" and "distancing" as key goals of medical training.
Body failure Mitchinson, Wendy
Body failure,
2013, 20131030, 2013, 2013-10-30
eBook
In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.
Promoting Treatment Adherence provides health care providers with a comprehensive set of information and strategies for understanding and promoting treatment adherence across a wide range of ...treatment types and clinical populations. The information is presented in a practical how-to manner, and is intended as a resource that practitioners can draw from to improve skills in promoting treatment adherence.
Leave passes provide authorized leave for hospitalized patients from a psychiatric inpatient unit. Although providing day passes was once a relatively common practice, there are relatively few data ...describing their safety and efficacy. This descriptive study examines the use of leave passes in an adult inpatient unit at a university hospital between 2017 and 2021, with attention to reasons for granting the day pass, duration, and outcome of the pass. During the study period, 10 patients with primary psychotic or mood disorders received 12 passes for housing coordination, COVID-19 vaccination, or major family events. There were no fatalities or abscondments. One patient experienced severe agitation and engaged in nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior. A second patient showed mild, redirectable psychomotor agitation upon return to the unit. The remaining 10 passes were uneventful. Our findings support the view that patients with diverse diagnoses can safely be provided leave from an inpatient setting with adequate planning and support, yielding a low incidence of adverse events.