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Purpose: To explore specific patient care experiences that genetics professionals associate with distress and the emotions engendered by those experiences. Methods: We conducted semistructured telephone interviews with clinical geneticists, genetic couns
Clinical staff identified sex as an important clinical problem, but one that is difficult to discuss with patients. This makes a case for including items about sex in myeloma QOL tools both as an important component of QOL, but also highlights an important clinical utility in facilitating ...
In conclusion:we don’t know howmuch protection surgical masks provide against the novel coronavirus. However, the above at least suggests that a surgical mask may providemore than zero protection– and that’s worth being aware of. It makes sense toonlywear them for protection as a method of...
Not all Americans have a primary care provider, or PCP, who they see regularly, and the percentage who see a PCP appears to be declining, according to a research report last year in JAMA Internal Medicine. PCPs play a number of key roles in healt...
Regarding the mechanisms through which these processes occur, “L,” a young man, noted: “We are not so different, but what is different here makes us strong. We are not different for wanting to die, as we sometimes think in silence; we are different for what we do to hide from deat...
Stigma and functional neurological disorder: a research agenda targeting the clinical encounter. CNS Spectr. 2021;26(6):1–6. doi:10.1017/S1092852920002084. (Open in a new window)Web of Science ®(Open in a new window)Google Scholar
The Choosing Wisely® initiative is one approach that makes explicit recommendations on screening as well as other medical procedures [25]. The AAFP is one of the many partners in this initiative. Within their Choosing Wisely recommendations, the AAFP provides an explicit statement around prostate ...
"The number of patients, especially children, who arrive at the hospital at an advanced stage of illness, which makes medical treatment difficult, and ends in death, is on the rise. This shows that people, even if they are ill, prefer to stay at home",said a non-striking doctor to Sav...
Such metatheoretical calculi can hopefully allow us to answer for ourselves: what makes a good theory, and how do we make a theory good? Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Iris van Rooij, Berna Devezer, Joshua Skewes, Sashank Varma, and Todd Wareham for organising the What ...