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Am J Hosp Palliat Care
January 2025
Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore.
Background: Palliative Care, Geriatrics and Emergency physicians are exposed to death, terminally ill patients and distress of patients and their families. As physicians bear witness to patients' suffering, they are vulnerable to the costs of caring-the emotional distress associated with providing compassionate and empathetic care to patients. If left unattended, this may culminate in burnout and compromise professional identity.
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January 2025
Dipartimento di Biomedicina, neuroscienze e diagnostica avanzata, Università di Palermo.
The commentary focuses on the requirements for access to medical assistance in dying in countries where this practice is legal. It shows that the different solutions adopted reflect a different balance between the principles of protection of life, reduction of suffering and respect for autonomy. The article also analyses the potential ethical problems associated with the decision-making capacity of psychiatric patients.
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December 2024
Pulmonary Research Unit (PLUZ), Department of Medicine, Zealand University Hospital Roskilde and Naestved, Naestved Hospital, Naestved, Denmark.
Background: Surgical resection is the preferred treatment for localised non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Rehabilitation is central in the management of the associated impaired quality of life, high symptom burden, deconditioning, and social-existential vulnerability. Yet, optimal content and delivery of rehabilitation are not yet defined.
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December 2024
Ashridge Centre for Coaching, Hult International Business School, Berkhamsted, United Kingdom.
In this article we explore some of the processes involved in dealing with Social Difference (SD) in coaching. Using examples from our own practice, we consider several factors, including the identity work involved in navigating the experience of SD in one-to-one coaching. Dealing with experiences of difference, including social class, gender, race, ability, and sexuality can invoke complicated and powerful feelings.
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October 2024
Department of Psychology, Stanford University.
Five years after the beginning of the COVID pandemic, one thing is clear: The East Asian countries of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea outperformed the United States in responding to and controlling the outbreak of the deadly virus. Although multiple factors likely contributed to this disparity, we propose that the culturally linked psychological defaults ("cultural defaults") that pervade these contexts also played a role. Cultural defaults are commonsense, rational, taken-for-granted ways of thinking, feeling, and acting.
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