scholarly journals First Person Account: A Personal Experience

1995 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Herrig
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
First Person ◽  
Person Account

scholarly journals First Person Account COVID 19 Delirium in a Doctor: When Death Stalks the Mind

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Arumi ◽  
Andrea Bulbena-Cabre ◽  
Antonio Bulbena
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Severe Illness ◽  
First Person ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Course Of Illness ◽  
Intense Fear ◽  
Lack Of Control ◽  
Risks Factors ◽  
Person Account ◽  
The Mind

Previous studies reported that 20–30% of COVID-19 patients will develop delirium during the hospitalization, achieving 70% in cases of severe illness. The risks factors and the consequences of delirium are well-documented in the literature; however, little is known about the personal experience of delirium. Delirium burden is common and tends to be distressing even after the delirium episode has resolved. Taking this in mind, the present work provides a first-person account of a doctor who acquired Covid-19 and developed bilateral pneumonia and had delirium and a complicate course of illness. During the course of his delirium, the patient recalled experiences of reality and unreality, complete disorientation, lack of control, strong emotions, and intense fear of dying which was significantly distressing. We anticipate that delirium burden will be common on these patients and family members and clinicians should be aware of this phenomenon in order to evaluate the neuropsychiatric consequences of this condition.

scholarly journals Dementia and literature

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 439-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Vassilas
Keyword(s):  
Scar Tissue ◽  
First Person ◽  
Iris Murdoch ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Jewish Migration ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Four Books ◽  
Person Account ◽  
The Uk

As we doctors are beginning to understand more and more about dementia, the public has become increasingly aware of the condition and in turn this has been reflected in the arts. This article discusses four books whose main focus is the experience of dementia, each written from an entirely different perspective: a novel giving a first-person account of dementia by the Dutch writer J. Bernlef; a biography of the famous novelist Iris Murdoch by her husband John Bayley; Linda Grant's account of her mother's multi-infarct dementia (which also describes Jewish migration to the UK two generations ago); and Michael Igniateff's autobiographical novel Scar Tissue. Such accounts, offering insights into how patients and carers feel, cannot but help make us better doctors.

scholarly journals First Person Account: Finding Myself and Loving It

1984 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. O'Neal
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Person Account

Thinking Globally: Mandeville, Memory, and Mappaemundi

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-106
Author(s):  
John Wyatt Greenlee ◽  
Anna Fore Waymack
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
First Person ◽  
Unreliable Narrator ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenging Students ◽  
Person Account

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: THE TRAVELS OF Sir John Mandeville, the fourteenth-century "first-person" account of a fictional English knight's adventurous journey to Jerusalem and across the world, is difficult to teach.1 Popular with medieval European audiences, the book troubles today's students with its confusing descriptions of global geography, its treatment of non-Christian, non-European peoples, and its constant conflation of fact and fable. But, as those who have taught it can attest, it can serve as a valuable tool for challenging students' preconceptions of an isolated European Middle Ages. It introduces them to an unreliable narrator and to tensions between the doctrines of the institutional Roman church and individual faith. The author's global perspective shows students a world of diverse religions, ethnicities, races, diets, customs, and sexualities. And the Travels does this while being relatively short and entertaining, pulling the reader through the map via its engaging narrative of landscaped vignettes.

The experience of depression

2020 ◽  
pp. 591-594
Author(s):  
Dening et
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Clinical Aspects ◽  
First Person ◽  
Diagnosis And Management ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
Person Account

The majority of chapters in this book demonstrate clinical aspects of various aspects of old age psychiatry. These accounts tend to focus only on the viewpoints of the healthcare professionals involved in the investigation, diagnosis, and management of the condition. This chapter is different, and provides a first-person account of an anonymous author and his experience of having episodes of depression. The author describes the course of the condition at various times in his life and the various ways in which it has affected him at various stages. This chapter also describes his experiences of treatment and contact with professionals.

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