Journal Club

burdens & benefits that patients weigh in making decisions …

Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Journal Club /

… a study of the different factors that patients with ALS consider in deciding on assisted ventilation. “(1) the meaning of the intervention— participants made a sharp distinction between non-invasive ventilation, which they viewed as a means to relieve symptoms of respiratory failure, and invasive ventilation, which they viewed as taking over their breathing and […]

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recognizing our patient’s needs …

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… an article in the most recent Journal of Medicine and the Person discusses the importance of attending to and recognizing the basic needs of our patients and families. A transcript of the original talk and related talks from the 2009 Med Conference. “The key lies in recognizing these basic needs. Not what we have

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our culture impedes a loving knowledge …

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… “The culture in which we find ourselves … impedes [a] loving knowledge: it imposes another, wrong kind of knowledge … Because this culture separates us from our experience as we have felt it … it cuts off this relationship of ours with experience.” Julian Carron The Destiny of Man 2004 – quoting Luigi Giussani

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patient – physician communication …

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… use of the first-person plural … One of our articles in Journal Club this week is Kinsman et. al.’s “We’ll Do this Together”: The Role of the First Person Plural in Fostering Partnership in Patient-physician Relationships. (J Gen Intern Med 25(3):186-93) (NLM link) Tulsky comments in PC-FACS … “This well designed mixed-methods study demonstrates

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