The heart of patient care: Remembering what matters

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The heart of patient care: Remembering what matters

17 July 2024

Lucy O'Hagan

Wednesday 17 July 2024, 12:30 AM

Hope, stillness and an open heart are required to support patients through suffering. “In the end, people are healed by love” [Image: Austin Kehmeier on Unsplash]

Lucy O’Hagan explores how lessons from the past resonate at medicine’s front line, from understanding patient suffering to the role of a healer

The holistic healer sees healing as restoring the balance between the person, their body, their relationships, the natural world and the spiritual wor

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References

References:

McWhinney I. McWhinney’s Textbook of Family Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1989
Frank AW. The Wounded Storyteller. Body, Illness & Ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1995
Helman C. Suburban Shaman. Tales from Medicine’s Frontline. Cape Town: Double Storey Books; 2004

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Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality

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