Harnessing Patient Life Stories to Engage Medical Trainees in Strengthening Veteran-Provider Relationships.

Introduction: Medical trainees do not have many opportunities to develop communication skills with patients. We established the voluntary "My Life, My Story" (MLMS) program at the Clement J. Zablocki VAMC in Milwaukee, WI, to determine if this pilot narrative medicine program enhanced trainee interpersonal skills and improved patient-centered care.

Post-inpatient attrition from care "as usual" in veterans with multiple psychiatric admissions.

Disengagement from outpatient care following psychiatric hospitalization is common in high-utilizing psychiatric patients and contributes to intensive care utilization. To investigate variables related to treatment attrition, a range of demographic, diagnostic, cognitive, social, and behavioral variables were collected from 233 veterans receiving inpatient psychiatric services who were then monitored over the following 2 years. During the follow-up period, 88.

Predictors of rehospitalization in high-utilizing patients in the VA psychiatric medical system.

233 high-service-utilizing (HSU) psychiatric patients were recruited during an inpatient psychiatric treatment. They completed a questionnaire related to their treatment beliefs and were tracked via computerized medical records over 2 years. During the follow-up period, 79.

Nonpsychotic, nonparaphilic self-amputation and the internet.

The literature suggests that self-amputation is an outgrowth of either psychosis or paraphilia. In the case we present, the patient was neither psychotic at the time of amputation, nor did he ascribe a sexual motivation for his act. Instead, he had a long-standing idea that being an amputee was a critical aspect of his identity.