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Palliat Med Rep
December 2024
Department of Palliative Care, Mount Sinai South Nassau, Oceanside, New York, USA.
Background: Burnout is common among palliative care clinicians caring for patients with a serious illness. Contemplative medicine is an emerging approach that aims to utilize Buddhist concepts of mindfulness, insight, and compassion to address unspoken suffering in clinicians.
Objectives: To introduce and share contemplative medicine practices with Hospice Palliative Medicine (HPM) fellows participating in two academic programs in New York.
BMJ Open
January 2025
Faculty of Medical Sciences, University College London, London, UK.
Introduction: An ageing population and a workforce crisis have triggered an ambitious UK strategy for sustained delivery of healthcare. In perioperative care (the management of patients from contemplation of surgery until full recovery), it is recognised that interventions are needed to place the workforce on a more sustainable footing through cross-functionality and skill-shifting, namely with advanced practice roles. However, despite some reports and reviews in the literature, it is unclear how skills development efforts may potentially support workforce transformation for an effective and resilient perioperative care workforce.
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December 2024
Department of Psychiatry, Enneagram Teacher, Madrid, Spain.
The practice of meditation has grown in popularity around the world in recent decades. However, standard and untailored meditative practices are recommended for all practitioners, regardless of their personality traits or characteristics. No scientific attempts have been made to match specific meditation types with personality.
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January 2025
Dr Halima Begum, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Enam Medical College and Hospital (EMCH), Dhaka, Bangladesh; E-mail:
Now-a-days, all over the world, skin disease are the fourth most common cause of disability. A significant amount of patient attending the dermatology outdoor of any major hospital in a daily basis. Irrational drug prescribing is a common contemplation in clinical practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging
December 2024
University of Arizona, SEMA Lab, Center for Consciousness Studies, Tuscon, AZ; Sanmai Technologies, PBC, Sunnyvale, CA.
Mindfulness has gained widespread recognition for its benefits to mental health, cognitive performance, and wellbeing. However, the multifaceted nature of mindfulness, encompassing elements like attentional focus, emotional regulation, and present-moment awareness, complicates its definition and measurement. A key component that may underlie its broad benefits is equanimity - the ability to maintain an open and non-reactive attitude toward all sensory experiences.
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