Archive: Scholarship
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“Ambiguity in End-of-Life Care Terminology—What Do We Mean by ‘Comfort Care?'”
Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne M. Kelemen explore the ambiguity in the terminology associated with end-of-life care, highlighting the need to talk about what “comfort care” or “comfort measures” actually mean.
Category: Scholarship
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Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories. Thought on the Edge
This book, edited by Nicoletta Pireddu, and with contributors from diverse cultural and scholarly backgrounds and based in three different continents, participates in the ongoing debate about the alleged “death of theory”, proposing new areas of investigation and interpretive possibilities, reopening dialogues with past and present discourses from a plurality of perspectives and locations.
Category: Scholarship
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“Rethinking cures in Jesse Ball’s A Cure for Suicide”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Ann Jurecic delve into Jesse Ball’s A Cure for Suicide to explore the experience of loneliness in the present, and the need to better address its social and cultural causes.
Category: Scholarship
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“Post-Transplantation Palliative Care: Misconceptions and Disincentives”
Dr. Michael Pottash argues for the value of providing palliative care to transplant recipients, which faces two major barriers: misconceptions about the goals of palliative care, and the quality care outcome measures that have the unintended consequence of disincentivizing its routine use.
Category: Scholarship
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“Examining the Artist-Patient Relationship in Palliative Care. A Thematic Analysis of Artist Reflections on Encounters with Palliative Patients”
Julia Langley and her co-authors study the artist-patient encounter and how artists can function in the palliative interdisciplinary model of care.
Category: Scholarship
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“The Return to Literature—Making Doctors Matter in the New Era of Medicine”
As medicine faces rapid changes in our current era, which include the widespread use of artificial intelligence, it is also expected for the nature of physicians’ jobs to change, as well as medical education. Dr. Marchalik explores the innovative approach of the Literature and Medicine Track of the Georgetown University School of Medicine, and suggests ways in which literature could be used to prepare future doctors for the evolving demands of the medical field.
Category: Scholarship
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“Visual Intelligence Education as an Innovative Interdisciplinary Approach for Advancing Communication and Collaboration Skills in Nursing Practice”
Julia Langley and her co-authors made a pilot intervention seeking to integrate visual intelligence skills into nursing education. The pilot suggests that teaching visual intelligence skills has potential to impact communication and collaboration.
Category: Scholarship
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“Failing Better: A New Paradigm of Care”
Dr. Hunter Groninger introduces a Heart Failure Reviews symposium issue that aims to call attention to the rapidly developing interface between heart failure and palliative care.
Category: Scholarship
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“Integrating Spiritual Care into Palliative Consultation: A Case Study in Expanded Practice”
Dr. Hunter Groninger and his co-authors describe the role of a palliative care chaplain embedded within the interdisciplinary palliative care team, demonstrating how the role of this palliative chaplain differs from that of a traditional hospital chaplain.
Category: Scholarship
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“Poor Prognostication: Hidden Meanings in Word Choices”
The absence of a standardised language to express prognostic information can be a barrier for providing realistic information to patients and their families. The team of researchers that includes Dr. Michael Pottash and Dr. Hunter Groninger surveyed a random sample of internal medicine attending physicians and residents to better determine perception of word choice related to documentation of patient prognosis and hospice eligibility in the medical record.
Category: Scholarship