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  • Health disparities in non-transition-related transgender care

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    Kurapova, Regina A.
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    Despite research advancements, the medical field contributes to many health disparities, or situations in which groups that were historically oppressed also experience systematically worse health and greater health risks than more advantaged groups. Although some researchers have paid attention to this population, most studies focus on transition-related care (mostly surgeries...
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    listserv, with the goal of recruiting five study participants. I included no children in the study and I

  • Moral Distress: Its Impact on Healthcare Professionals and Their Patients

    Creator:
    Reeder, Eryn E.
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    Moral distress is the experience of knowing the right action to take but being unable to take it. It is especially prevalent in the healthcare profession, where professionals’ actions are limited by the wishes of patients and their families, hierarchies, and organizational failings. Since it is accepted that healthcare professionals...
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    disconnect from their patients. Preventing moral distress would be difficult, and no clear prevention

  • Practices to Reduce Physician-Family Conflict during Surrogate Decision Making

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    Polte, Katherine P.
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    This thesis aims to investigate the reasons for discordance in the physician-family relationship, to explore how to improve that relationship, and to develop a set of practices to help prevent conflicts. The research was done by analyzing research on surrogate decision making, conflicts surrounding end of life, and case studies....
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    of the woman lying there, but she gives no indication she knows they are there. After suffering a

  • Through the Eyes of Five: Combating Pandemic Amnesia Through the Collection and Preservation of COVID-19 Stories

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    Celaya, Alanna
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    The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic led to a phenomenon termed as pandemic amnesia. It is apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a disturbingly similar pattern. My thesis investigated the prevalence and perils of pandemic amnesia in the context of COVID-19. I explored this issue through a review of scholarly literature...
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    burning since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we're

  • Identifying methods to facilitate better quality relationships between physicians and nurses

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    Cross, Cambria
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    The medical system in healthcare facilities is characterized by its hierarchical nature. This hierarchy is demonstrated in the authority assumed by physicians. Professional respect and communication between doctors and the nurses are necessary for overall job satisfaction and the creation of an optimal environment for quality patient care. The significance...
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    involvement in patient care and ability to observe and report more frequently. Regardless of the difference

  • Spirituality in Medicine: The Physician’s Perspective

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    Soto, Tiffany A.
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    Many public opinion surveys indicate that patients desire an open dialogue on spirituality/religion with their physicians. What role does spirituality play in the physician/patient relationship and in what contexts do these conversations arise? What do physicians think about the appropriateness of such discussions? Because the role of spirituality in clinical...
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    to myself what exactly that meant and if I should be familiar with the term. No other doctor had

  • Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship: Parent, Technician, and Provider

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    Takata, Kimberly K.
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    The relationship between physicians and patients is undeniably unique. To understand the qualities of a healing relationship, it is essential to analyze the perceptions that influence physician behavior. Metaphors and relationship models are often used in bioethics to analyze the construction of perceptions. The goal of this study is to...
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    Oath “makes no reference to physicians’ obligation to converse with patients” (Katz, 1984, p. 4), to

  • The Doctor-Patient Relationship: How a Physician Navigates Clinical Empathy and Patient Death

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    Smith, Hannah R.
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    As the importance of empathy in medicine has become more understood the dynamic of the patient-doctor relationship has changed. However, how to properly incorporate empathy into a healthcare relationship has not been thoroughly investigated. There is also continued disagreement on how to appropriately define empathy in a healthcare setting. The...
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    contrasts with the other two in that the patient’s best medical interests are no longer the only concern

  • The art of medicine in practice: A look at how exceptional physician-patient relationships are formed in healthcare today

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    Castaneda, Jason
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    The art of medicine refers to physicians’ abilities to skillfully navigate interpersonal interactions with patients. These interactions are vital to the formation of exceptional physician-patient relationships. Certain elements of healthcare today such as the advancement of diagnostic tests, the emergence of the electronic medical record, and the presence of market...
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    her nose and mouth and palpated her lymph nodes with no wasted movements. While listening to her

  • Health Disparities: The Impacts of Language Barriers on Healthcare Delivery

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    Pham, Maija Linh T.
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    Communication is an aspect of healthcare that affects healthcare providers and patients at each step of their medical journey. The purpose of this research is to identify the effects that language barriers cause between healthcare workers and patients and the patients’ families and how those effects are perceived by and...
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    at what different populations of patients and physicians report, Al Shamsi et. al provided that, in