shazdancer
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Very nice article on "Catastrophe and Caregiving: the Failure of Medicine as an Art." The author speaks about the importance of helping the patient regain a quality of life, not just fix a body as much as you can and then stop.
quote:...I do believe that what doctors need to be helped to master is the art of acknowledging and affirming the patient as a suffering human being; imagining alternative contexts and practices for responding to calamity; and conversing with and supporting patients in desperate situations where the emphasis is on what really matters to the patient and his or her intimates.
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bettyg
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by shazdancer:
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I do believe that what doctors need to be helped to master is the art of acknowledging and affirming the patient as a suffering human being;
imagining alternative contexts and practices for responding to calamity;
and conversing with and supporting patients in desperate situations where the emphasis is on what really matters to the patient and his or her intimates.
good one shaz! don't you think we should print this off and HAND to every MD we see and tell them, THIS IS WHAT WE WANT!!
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