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...strongly believe that a physician has a moral obligation to learn about all aspects of a patient’s identity (socioeconomic status, occupation, culture, race, ethnicity, language, immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity and religion) as they may or may not relate to her/his health habits, beliefs or practices. However, an understanding and subsequent consideration of these circumstances in the context of ensuring optimal patient care is where, I believe, such an obligation ends...
...what they really mean anyhow.” A more honest answer would be for the doctor to admit that she doesn’t believe in God and doesn’t feel at ease praying with the patient. That attending is an exceptionally capable and compassionate physician. But she’s probably uncomfortable with dealing with the role of faith in death and disease. And that discomfort is all too common...
...back as the 1600s, the prominent English physician Thomas Willis suggested that headaches are caused by a rapid increase in the flow of blood to the brain. He theorized that the suddenly bulging blood vessels put pressure on nearby nerves and that these in turn trigger the pain. A variation on Willis' idea became the favored explanation for the cause of migraines. (An important network of blood vessels at the base of the brain bears Willis' name...
...always spoken about in our home," says Crist, 50, sitting in shirtsleeves in his office, beneath a painting of his Greek immigrant grandfather when he was a shoe-shine boy. He speaks daily on the phone with his father Charles, who in the 1960s was the only white physician in Crist's hometown of St. Petersburg to volunteer to help sports teams at segregated, all-black high schools--and who advised his son during the Terri Schiavo spectacle in 2005, when Crist was Florida's elected attorney general. "I told Charlie, 'Look, I've seen the brain scans on that...
...Although what you reported is very important, what was not mentioned is perhaps even more important. After completing chemotherapy, surgery and radiation treatments, cancer survivors have critical needs. Far too many of us are left on our own after completing a course of treatment. In too many instances, the physician says, Come back and see me in a year. We all need accurate and up-to-date information as we move forward with our lives. Mervyn Kopp, Thousand Oaks, California...