Word: psychologist
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...reality of family dynamics is that those choices are often made by consensus. Health-care professionals who frequently deal with families in those situations offer two broad pieces of advice. First, "Everybody needs to hear the same thing" about the patient's prognosis, says Bruce Ambuel, a psychologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. "Otherwise you have different people hearing different things from different specialists at different times, and it just sows the seeds of conflict." Second, family members should go on a fact-finding mission to get a sense of a patient's probable desires. "Talk...
...Craig F. Rodgers, counselor and psychologist at the Bureau of Study Counsel, recognizes the dominating grip that the thesis has on many senior writers...
Professor Sheldon “Shep” White, a developmental psychologist known for his contributions to the field of childhood cognitive development, died of an unexpected heart failure on March...
...role most psychologists and psychiatrists play in these interrogations may be relatively benign. One military psychologist described for TIME the help he gave intelligence officers in Afghanistan in getting an unruly Taliban prisoner to cooperate--coaxing information from the prisoner by starting "very gently" with innocuous questions about his family history, until the prisoner "talked and talked...
...decide a soldier's fate themselves: whether to return him back to the war after being stitched up, or send him back to his base, or home. Partly with Cornum's coaxing, U.S. military commanders in Europe have begun requiring every soldier returning from Iraq to consult a psychologist for post-traumatic stress syndrome. Cornum, who previously led the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Bosnia, has also hired several trauma surgeons and critical-care nurses and added operating rooms to the icu. "It's a completely different place now," Putnam says. He ranks Landstuhl as "a world-class trauma center...