Doctors and other healthcare professionals should use the arts and humanities to develop their empathic skills and improve mental healthcare practice, according to a new book...
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August 12, 2010
How Humanities Can Improve Health Care
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December 25, 2009
New Study Shows Families, Not Doctors, Raise The Issue Of Prayer
What happens when the families of sick and dying hospitalized children ask their physicians to pray with them, or for them? How do pediatricians respond to such personal requests? While increasing numbers of physicians say that religion and spirituality help some patients and families cope with serious illness, a new study reports that it is almost always the families and patie...
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October 26, 2009
September 19, 2009
Professional obligations versus personal ethics: what doctors think
In the last post, I reported on a study into whether religious people are more likely to support the Supreme Court to judge matters of right and wrong. Apparently they are. This is in line with the well-known fact that religious people are more likely to have authoritarian natures.But it doesn't necessarily follow that religious people are more likely to obey authorities if those authorities are
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July 26, 2009
Soldiers’ emotional battle scars put doctors in dilemma
July 26, 2009 The Seattle Times
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May 26, 2009
Religious doctors (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Researchers have investigated whether a doctor's religious beliefs can influence the way patients are treated
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May 5, 2009
U.S. recommends teens’ doctors screen for depression (Daily Record)
The next time you take your teen to a doctor for a physical, sports checkup or a minor illness, don't be surprised if the visit includes a little something extra: a screening for major depression.
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April 28, 2009
Some insight into why it's harder to recognize different-age faces
Last year's movie Changeling tells the story, from the late 1920s, of a mother whose son is kidnapped. Then, six months later, the police say they've found the boy and return him to his mother, who immediately claims that the boy they returned was not her son. She's then coerced into taking this child in, and doctors are brought forward to convince her that this is really her son. People change,
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