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...Care of the total person involves not just professional help, but support from friends and family. Mucci found that men who were given their diagnosis in the presence of their families were less likely to kill themselves than those who bore the news alone. Having a social support network may not take the cancer away, but it could help ease the anxiety of learning to live with...
...easing the shock of the news, says Vogelzang. Physicians should be aware of and alerted to any history of depression or mental illness in their cancer patients. And if their patients do need counseling or support, they should be provided these services as part of their overall cancer care. "We think the diagnosis of cancer is a teachable moment, when clinicians need to really be involved in thinking not only, what am I going to do to treat this cancer, but the total person," says Mucci. (See TIME's health and medicine covers...
...clinicians in other parts of Africa like Lesotho or Rwanda, also known as “brain drain,” the weakening of local systems of health due to a shift in focus, and a diversion of attention and personnel from other health-related issues, such as basic care...
Proponents of such initiatives may find it satisfying to rest on the anodyne logic that any aid is good aid. Others note that while it is easy to argue for critical analysis of health care delivery methods, people are dying all around the world. Both of these arguments are a disservice to the seriousness and complexity of the issues. Organizational approaches to global health are not always ideal, but at the very least they benefit from heterogeneous influences and collective input from individuals who all share equal standing. Gates’ authority does not benefit from this kind of democratic...
...Democrats have become even more uncomfortable following the loss of the party's Senate seat in Massachusetts in January. "People talk about the potency of the health care issue," Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior strategist for victorious underdog Republican Scott Brown, told the National Review on election day, "but from our own internal polling, the more potent issue here in Massachusetts was terrorism and the treatment of enemy combatants." (See portraits of Gitmo detainees...