These guys know how it’s done. I sincerely believe we have on of the best ambulance services in England. With these guys included, even if they rely on charity funding.
What if we treated every illness the way we treat mental illness?
A very good poster/leaflet. Gets the point across in an imaginative way, I think. Thought-provoking. Many people have been known to say these comments relating to mental health issues, but when we hear them said in the context of other illnesses, it strikes up that little voice that says “This is wrong - I shouldn’t say this.”
Why then, is it socially acceptable to relate such remarks to mental health issues?
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But the social sciences alone don’t cover all the skills crucial to quality care: the ability to observe people, to imagine what they’re thinking and feeling, to listen, to interpret complex situations, to navigate difficult ethical decisions together with patients, to practice with self-awareness. In fact, an overemphasis on the social sciences risks repeating the errors of a reductivist science of the body by promising a science of the person. That risk is even greater if students see the coursework as training for a multiple-choice exam.
The truth is that people are messy and complex. They aren’t always predictable, especially when they’re suffering and especially when they’re facing their mortality. Bodies, too, are complicated. Every clinical encounter, every clinical decision has something unique about it.
If we want future doctors to develop the arts of communication, the skills of interpretation, and the ethical sensitivities they’ll need when they finish medical school, we need to encourage them to train in the humanities as well. They should be taking courses in literature, philosophy, ethics, cultural analysis, the arts, and history, including the history of medicine itself. Indeed, given that the humanities are virtually invisible in medical school, it’s all the more important that they figure in the pre-med curriculum…
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Cardiomegaly related to a case of morbid obesity, where the size of the heart approximates that of the brain.
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We were talking about the stigma of mental health in class yesterday and I was outraged by some of the things that people came out with.
One of the girls in my class said that she wouldn’t want to be treated by a doctor who was bipolar (even though this hypothetical doctor had passed occupational…
Read this. I completely agree. Attitudes toward mental health have got to change.
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