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Soc Sci Med
February 2024
School of Social Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Rationale: Maternal fetal surgery (MFS) has developed rapidly since the 1960s and centers for fetal diagnosis and therapy (CFDT) have proliferated. As a result, CFDT clinicians have intervened with fetuses through pregnant bodies for decades, yet the patienthood status of the fetus and its implications for the pregnant person's autonomy have been relatively unexamined.
Objective: Our overall research aims were threefold: (1) to explore how clinicians train for and provide counseling for MFS; (2) to examine how clinicians assess fetal patienthood and its implications; and (3) to understand clinicians' professed needs and their recommendations for education and training for the provision of MFS counseling.
Purpose: The notion of physician invulnerability to illness contributes to the ongoing marginalization of physicians with personal experiences of illness and complicates professional identity development in medical learners. As such, physician self-disclosure of lived experiences as patients has seen an increasing role in medical education. Existing literature, centered on mental health, has characterized the positive effect of physician discussion of experience with mental illness on medical students and residents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQual Health Res
November 2023
Bern University of Applied Sciences Health, Bern, Switzerland.
The importance of perceiving and considering patients as healthcare partners has been increasingly promoted. Healthcare systems around the world are now highly interested in patient engagement, participation, collaboration, and partnership. Healthcare professionals are advised that patients, as autonomous beings, should be active in and responsible for a portion of their own care.
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January 2024
Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Objectives: Incorporating the perspectives of patients and public into the conduct of research has the potential to make scientific research more democratic. This paper explores how being a patient partner on an arthritis patient advisory board shapes the patienthood of a person living with arthritis.
Methods: An analysis was undertaken of the narratives of 22 patient research partners interviewed about their experiences on the Arthritis Patient Advisory Board (APAB), based in Vancouver, Canada.
Support Care Cancer
December 2022
Applied Health Research Centre, St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 1W8, Canada.
Purpose: A cancer diagnosis poses unique challenges for moms with young children who must balance illness-management alongside existing paid (e.g., employment) and unpaid (e.
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