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Doulas may indicate failings in patient care, warns doctor

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The presence of doulas (paid birth assistants) during labour may alter the doctor-patient dynamic and can compromise communication and therefore patient care, warns a doctor in the British Medical Journal today.


Dying from dementia: NEJM editorial advocates for palliative care

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A growing number of older adults are dying from dementia. In an editorial in the October 15, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Greg Sachs, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Division of Genera ...


How adolescent girls manage stress

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Greater influence over everyday life, emotional support, and cultural and recreational activities help to enable teenage girls to withstand stress. Those were the results of a dissertation from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University ...


Emotional support leads to sporting success

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sportsmen and women could get the edge on their opponents by accepting more emotional support in their personal and professional lives. A study by the University of Exeter, published in the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, shows ...


Gaining new insights into mentoring programs for adolescent girls

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created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study of a Big Brothers Big Sisters of America formal mentoring program, which matched adolescent girls with women mentors, revealed that strong emotional support and improvement in girls psychosocial functioning from these ...


Study examines how doctors discuss medical errors

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created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

We can learn from our mistakes, but how willing are we to talk about them? And what happens when those making mistakes are physicians, who are often expected to be infallible?