Dignity in Care
The Human Side of Medicine
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 February 2025
- ISBN 9780197798133
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages184 pages
- Size 236x156x10 mm
- Weight 313 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 B&W H/T Illustrations and 2 B&W line illustrations 576
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Short description:
Dignity in Care provides readers with what they need to know about the humanity and tone of care, and how they can engage in these facets of care in a thoughtful and meaningful way that will satisfy their patients' needs to be seen and appreciated as "whole persons." The author explores how the humanity of care can get overlooked and how to avoid this happening. It teaches how to communicate better with patients, helping them to feel not just cared for, but cared about.
MoreLong description:
No one goes into healthcare with the intention of hurting people, or wanting to come off as callous, cold, or unfeeling. Fortunately, most people working in healthcare understand that kindness and compassion are key, even foundational to success in the care they provide to patients and families. And yet, all too often, there are instances when contact with healthcare is tainted by experiences ranging from vaguely annoying or abrasive to outright emotionally assaultive. Patients may confront experiences that chip away at their sense of pride and personhood; this can be as subtle as being kept waiting for an appointment, as insidious as being required to wear a plastic hospital bracelet that tracks them according to an institutional number or code, and as jarring as being referred to as an aberrant body part - the proverbial "GI bleed in room two" or "breast tumor in room three."
Dignity in Care provides readers with what they need to know about the humanity and tone of care, and how they can engage in these facets of care in a thoughtful and meaningful way that will satisfy their patients' needs to be seen and appreciated as "whole persons." The author explores how the humanity of care can get overlooked and how to avoid this happening. It teaches how to communicate better with patients, helping them to feel not just cared for, but cared about. Sir William Osler said, "The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease." Dignity in Care applies this outlook to all of healthcare, because many people can gain technical competency, but success within healthcare requires more.
This is a book of profound humanity, wisdom, and insight. Chochinov calls clinicians to become aware not only of the patienthood of the people we serve, but also of the intrinsic dignity of their personhood
Table of Contents:
Preface for Paperback Edition
Preface
About the Author
Introduction
1. Understanding Patienthood
2. The ABCDs of Dignity-Conserving Care
3. The Model of Optimal Therapeutic Communication
4. Dignity in Care
Epilogue
Index
