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CPN Digest #23

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Something for the weekend: Managing the (In)visibility of Chronic Illness at Work (article) My job as a doctor in today's NHS is draining me of humanity (magazine) Listening to Patients’ Voices: Workarounds Patients Use to Construct Pain Intensity Ratings (article) The invigorating strangeness of Friedrich Nietzsche (magazine) Facilitation of a Person-Centered Approach in Health Assessment of patients with chronic pain (article) Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation (book review) Heideggerian Phenomenology, Practical Ontologies and the Link Between Experience and Practices (article) The Lives of Michel Foucault republished by Verso, with a new … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #23

Can you teach physiotherapists to be empathic?

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There has been a lot of talk in recent years about the capabilities that health professionals will need in the future. This is partly because the sheer economics of future healthcare will mean that other ways of delivering routine tasks - those that once required extensive training and expensively employed specialists to deliver them - will be given managed by smart machines, wearables, robotics and AI. A friend of mine was saying the other day that she recently sat with her elderly mother in hospital for two weeks during a bout of illness, and during that time only two of the nurses actually took time to build a relationship with them.  The others just came in to do things to her: … [Read more...] about Can you teach physiotherapists to be empathic?

CPN Digest #22

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Something for the weekend: Public dissection was a gruesome spectacle (magazine) Bodies Beyond Borders. Moving Anatomies 1750-1950 (book review) Galvani's voltaic pile c.1800 (image) Michel Foucault: The Order of Things (hagiography) How Should We Read the Totalitarian Philosophers? (blog) Medical Cadaver Dissection, Power, and Inequality in the United States (blog) Remembering Gary Gutting (blog) Heideggerian Phenomenology, Practical Ontologies and the Link Between Experience and Practices (article) Five warning signs of overdiagnosis (magazine) Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation (article) Health Check: do we really need to take 10,000 … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #22