Medical Anthropology: Lessons Learned and Applied in a Medical Practice

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Joseph Schnurr
Keyword(s):  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Concepts Of Health ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Way

The study of sociocultural anthropology has not only led to changes in the way I practice medicine. It has also led to changes in my understanding of the concepts of health and illness, of the importance in understanding my patients' perspectives, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors and how these are shaped by cultural and social influences.

Translation of CYP2D6 Human Genetic Variation into Medical Practice: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 306-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Lorenz ◽  
Stefan Prause ◽  
Moritz Eidens ◽  
Alexander Weise ◽  
Marco Klemm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Human Genetic Variation ◽  
The Way

Clinical Judgment Revisited

1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (04/05) ◽  
pp. 279-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. L. Weed
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Clinical Judgment ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Patient Records ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
The Way

AbstractIt is widely recognised that accessing and processing medical information in libraries and patient records is a burden beyond the capacities of the physician’s unaided mind in the conditions of medical practice. Physicians are quite capable of tremendous intellectual feats but cannot possibly do it all. The way ahead requires the development of a framework in which the brilliant pieces of understanding are routinely assembled into a working unit of social machinery that is coherent and as error free as possible – a challenge in which we ourselves are among the working parts to be organized and brought under control.Such a framework of intellectual rigor and discipline in the practice of medicine can only be achieved if knowledge is embedded in tools; the system requiring the routine use of those tools in all decision making by both providers and patients.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned in Fifteen Years of Evolution of the Linking and MoT Office of a R&D Public Center

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Luis Roberto Vega-González
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Technology Transfer Office ◽  
Management Of Technology ◽  
Time Standard ◽  
The Way

In this paper it is proposed that similarly with the evolution and maturation of any organization, the Linking and Management of Technology Office (L & MoT) of a public R&D Mexican Centre has been evolved and is in the way to be transformed into a Technology Transfer Office (TTO). Case of fifteen year evolution of the Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y Desarrollo Tecnológico L & MoT presents empirical evidence to identify the main phases and actions that have been driving this process along this time. Standard results obtained through the years using the L & MoT Management of Technology Model (MoT) are presented. Emphasis is placed in a final section with the lessons obtained from non-standard results coming from unsuccessful negotiations and failed link actions between the Center and some external organizations. Experience has shown that not all negotiations are successful but curiously, the best lessons for the personnel of a technology transfer office are probably derived from these problematic cases.

scholarly journals Interdependence versus Truth and Justice: Lessons from Reconciliation Processes in Maluku

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Diah Kusumaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Truth Commissions ◽  
Formal Institutions ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Way

Truth commissions and trials have been applauded as the way to move on from a violent past. Yet, some post-conflict societies managed to move toward reconciliation without the presence, or the effective presence of such formal institutions. This article discusses a number of lessons learned from Maluku, where reconciliation took the interdependence path. Taking on an interpretive, emic approach, it elaborates on the sites and mechanisms of interpendence. It argues that interdependence can be as viable as truth and justice procedures in bringing about reconciliation.

USING THE NETWORK FOR EDUCATION AND OUTREACH IN ASTRONOMY

2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (04) ◽  
pp. 505-517
Author(s):  
LEOPOLDO BENACCHIO
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Education And Outreach ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Way

This paper is divided into two parts. In the first the project of didactics and outreach "Catch the Stars in the Net!" is described, while in the second one an account of some important lessons learned on the way the Network use change the rules of the play is given. An account of the new Web module: "The Universe at Your fingertips", especially developed for visually impaired and even completely blind Web users in finally given.

Specialties Without Roots: The Utilization of New Services

1959 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliot Freidson
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
The Way

One important difference between occupational specialties is their relation to their prospective clientele. In the distant past, the now established "old" professions grew up in a world of neighborhoods and villages in answer to specific demands made by a clientele. An example of this historical development is to be found in medical practice, whose roots in client demand are well documented. Over the centuries, medical practice extended its domain by coopting or wresting away such folk or quack practices1 as that of the bonesetter,2 the cataract gouger, and the clap doctor,3 practices firmly rooted in popular demand. Historically, there is little doubt of medicine's root in a lay clientele's desire for specific help for problems which were recognized by the clientele itself to be problems. Medical practice dealt with such problems more or less in the way that the clientele expected.

Lighting Up the Bulb’s Station

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeeb Nami ◽  
Virginia Bodolica ◽  
Martin Spraggon
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
American University ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Predisposing Conditions ◽  
The Way

This case study follows the entrepreneurial journey initiated by a group of undergraduate students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and examines the decisions made and lessons learned along the way. Uncovering the intricacies of the process of business ideation, the case analyses the predisposing conditions that led to the establishment of the Bulb’s Station—a vending booth offering exclusively homemade food. A particular emphasis is placed on analysing the two major experiences that the partners had running the booth, namely, at the 2016 AUS Global Day and the 2016 UAE National Day Celebration at the American University of Sharjah (AUS). By providing detailed information regarding the type, variety, quantity and pricing of dishes on the menu, the reader is brought to estimate the extent to which the booth’s operation was successful at each of the two events. Based on prior challenges and shortcomings in adopted strategies, the partners are now confronted with the critical question of whether to turn the Bulb’s Station into a start-up company in the food industry in the UAE.

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