Publications by authors named "Guenda Bernegger"

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  • Schools in Switzerland prioritized staying open during the pandemic while many other countries closed, leading to a study on the challenges faced by school staff.
  • Researchers interviewed 47 school staff members about their experiences, revealing challenges like isolation, confusion over health measures, and the alienation from their teaching roles.
  • Despite the difficulties, participants noted some benefits such as improved hygiene practices, a greater appreciation for in-person education, and an acknowledgment of cultural diversity, highlighting the need for their voices in public health planning.
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Prognosis is central to clinical medical practice. In oncology, an accurate prognosis is a key requirement for making the right therapeutical decisions. Prognosis is even more important when medicine extends its predictive capacities using genetic data.

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The Medical Humanities go beyond bioethics, cross over multiple disciplines and represent a new way of perceiving, seeing and thinking about illness. They represent a different view that gives value to the human side of treatment, that recognizes in self-narration an authentic and living foundation. Today, the technical aspects of medicine need more than ever to be accompanied by content derived from the arts and social or human sciences that focus on other, but not less important, aspects of being sick or in health.

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