Medical screening of dental patients: 16-year experience in a referral dental hospital
This article also provides dental treatment guidelines for patients with medical disorders. The reader should understand the determinants and indicators of systemic health which are essential for the development and promotion of programs designed to improve the screening of such patients. In future, increased emphasis can be laid on research and training in this growing field at dental schools and organized dentistry places like referral dental hospitals. (Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person)
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - August 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Child’s suffering: proposals to support and manage the illness
This article closely examines and looks at possible ways to approach the reception and care of suffering children. The importance of communication of the diagnosis as a decisive moment in the life of the whole family is the focus. We discussed the role of welcoming, listening and processing the thoughts concerning the disease to be able to accept, without running away from the suffering derived from the painful experience. (Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person)
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - August 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Focus on the person in an international conference: inclusiveness, cost, human values, and compassion
This article reviews the most important aspects of this approach and the interesting discussion that followed (Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person)
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - April 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Making sense, ritual, and improvisation at the end of life
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In this essay, the author offers new possibilities for end of life care through sense making with patients that employs both ritual and improvisation in lieu of traditional medical ethical decision-making. (Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person)
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - April 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
A rapidly progressive case of generalized atherosclerosis
We report the case of a 78-year-old patient with atherosclerosis, arterial hypertension, chronic renal failure and permanent atrial fibrillation, deceased for a rupturing abdominal aortic aneurism. In the preceding 6 months, the patient had a trophic ulcer of the malleolus and a lymphocytic vasculitis of the legs presenting as cutaneous inflammation and confirmed by skin biopsy; subsequently, he had a worsening renal failure with proteinuric nephropathy and eventually a progressive neurologic involvement with cognitive impairment, depression, bradykinesia and tremors. The symptoms were ascribed to cerebral vascular suffer...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - April 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Communication as the heart and the art of person-centered medicine: making a case for qualitative research
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Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - April 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
To succor the sick: crossroads of US healthcare’s future and Charity Hospital’s past
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The ongoing reconstruction of the American medical system draws in the human drama central to the reconstruction of New Orleans’ Charity Hospital, mortally wounded by Hurricane Katrina and yet poignantly illustrating the new era decentralizing medical care. Second in the United States only to New York City’s Bellevue Hospital in age, the history of Charity Hospital winds through epidemics, wars, physician duels, and hurricanes to the current day. The ongoing political duel between proponents of the Affordable Care Act and the resistant Louisiana state government pits Charity Hospital as the...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - April 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
What does the future hold for the Journal of Medicine and the Person?
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Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - April 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
