Category / Patient/Physician Relationship
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Promise and Pitfalls of Transitions in Health Care
Transitions of Care: Promises and Pitfalls is the subject of a presentation Penny Feldman, PhD, of the Vising Nurse Service of New York will deliver in Kansas City on April 20, 2012.
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Preview of A Nation in Pain by Judy Foreman
A 2011 Report on Pain by the Institute of Medicine indicates some 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain.
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Prescription Drug Abuse in the State of Washington
Myra Christopher, Kathleen Foley Chair in Pain and Palliative Care at the Center for Practical Bioethics, discusses why cooler heads must rise above the rhetoric in the state of Washington when it comes to new legislation attempting to reduce prescription drug abuse.
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Pain is Hard: The Complexity of Pain Treatment
Rollin “Mac” Gallagher, MD, provides an overview of his presentation, “Pain is Hard: The Complexity of Pain Treatment,” presented at a pain symposium in Kansas City on April 26, 2011. (April 8, 2011)
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Pain and the Critical Care Nurse
Damon Cottrell, RN, discusses the ethical challenges a critical care nurse faces on a typical day, especially when it comes to the treatment of pain. (February 1, 2012)
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Nurses and Treating Chronic Pain
Nurses play an important role in pain management.
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Medical Professionalism: What’s trust — not truth — got to do with it?
The physician patient relationship is changing as is the concept of medical professionalism.
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Legal Immigrant. Illegal Donor. Ethics?
A legal immigrant needs a kidney transplant and presents undocumented immigrants as potential living donors.
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A Muslim in America Practicing Medicine
Dr. Rauf Mir discusses what’s it like to be a Muslim practicing medicine in the United States. (February 24, 2012)
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Integrative Pain Treatment
Heather Tick, MD, holder of the Gunn-Loke Endowed Professorship of Integrative Pain Medicine at the University of Washington, explains why more and more people in pain and the medical professionals who treat them are turning to integrative medicine to treat pain.
