The hospitalization of a chronically ill child requires meticulous orchestration. Treatment recommendations must be transmitted to the family in a coherent and supportive fashion. Patient comfort and nutrition must be maintained, and psychological support provided. Discharge planning is often extensive. To ...
Being heartbroken can take a toll on physical and mental health, but the condition is rarely fatal. That said, dissolving a valued relationship is always painful. To truly experience a broken heart, one needs to care enough about someone else for grief to be a reasonable response. Grief ...
Living with chronic heart failure (CHF) affects health-related quality of life (Ekman, Fagerberg, & Lundman, Citation2002) due to the associated consequences of fluid retention, breathlessness, fatigue, limited exercise capacity and poor survival in a 5-year perspective (McMurray et al., Citation...
When Does Behavior Trigger a Lesser Claim to Medical Resources? When Does Chronic Drinking, for Example, Mean That One Has a Lesser Claim to a Liver Transplant? Only When One's Behavior Becomes a Callous Indifference to Others' Needs-When One Knows the Consequences of Heavy Drinking and Kn...
Living with a chronic condition is like living in a fragile house, tirelessly trying to strengthen its foundations and supporting walls.
When does depression become an emergency? An acute change in mood that persists for weeks or is associated with thoughts of self-harmshould not be ignored. In some cases, it may constitute an emergency. Depressed mood, whether from a major depressive episode, or in the context of another pro...
To understand the extent to which this confusion might also be ivermectin’s future, I went to r/Rosacea, the subreddit for advice on dealing with the chronic condition. Categorically different People with rosacea know ivermectin not as an unproven covid drug, but as a proven and effective ...
On the other hand, corrosive agents may also cause injuries of the respiratory system, which makes the treatment very hard and additionally complicates the severe clinical condition of the patient [6]. Chemical pneumonitis, as was present in our patient, can also be seen with corrosive ingestion...
it usually does not last for more than a year.The third kind of loneliness is the most serious.Unlike the second type, chronic (the opposite of‘temporary’) usually lasts more than two years and has no specific cause.People who experience habitual loneliness have problems socializing and ...
Radical acceptance comes into play when you acknowledge the reality of the diagnosis, understand your emotions, and start working toward managing your condition or helping your loved one in a proactive and healthy way. What does radical acceptance look like in a relationship? Radical acceptance in ...