scholarly journals Study on Headache in ENT Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Fakruddin Ahmed ◽  
KA Al Mahmud ◽  
Md Kamal Uddin ◽  
Maleka Afroz
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Subarachnoid Haemorrhage ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Satisfactory Treatment ◽  
Potentially Malignant ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The One

Headache is perhaps one of the commonest symptoms in all level of medical practice. Though most of the time it is very benevolent in nature. Yet, it may be the presenting symptom of a serious or/and life threatening disorder like meningitis, subarachnoid haemorrhage, stroke or brain tumor. It is this dual significance the one benign, the other potentially malignant that keeps the physician on the alert. This is a random prospective study of 120 cases of headache truly reflecting the sufferings of the victims of headache approaching the ENT specialists for the purpose to determine the exact cause of headache and get a satisfactory treatment. Bangladesh J Otorhinolaryngol; April 2017; 23(1): 19-26

scholarly journals The ethical dilemma of granulocyte transfusions

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 156-161
Author(s):  
Erik Gustavsson ◽  
Rune Sjödahl ◽  
Elvar Theodorsson
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Ethical Dilemma ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clinical Effects ◽  
Randomized Control Trials ◽  
Risk Benefit Assessment ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Randomized Control ◽  
The One

Granulocyte transfusions have been administered to patients with life-threatening infections for more than five decades. However, to what extent this should be the case is far from established. On the one hand, the clinical effects of these transfusions are difficult to prove in clinical studies, and the donors of granulocytes may be exposed to certain risks. On the other hand, clinical experience seems to support the idea that granulocyte transfusions do play an important role for severely ill patients, and the donors are primarily motivated by altruistic reasons. In this paper, we first discuss the ethical issues that arise from the fact that there is a conflict between clinical experience and the results from the attempts to perform randomized control trials, and second, the risk/benefit assessment that has to be made between two different parties, namely the recipient and the donor of granulocyte transfusions.

Alkohol ist ein gefährliches Produkt

2017 ◽  
Vol 142 (25) ◽  
pp. 1933-1935 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich John
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Alcohol ◽  
Epidemiological Evidence ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
High Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Consumption Data ◽  
The One

AbstractAlcohol is a hazardous product. Its consumption depends on the society’s drinking norms. These are set by advertising industries on the one hand, and forces of public health and medical services on the other hand. Germany is one of the countries with high alcohol consumption. According to epidemiological evidence, alcohol-attributable diseases include more than 200 diagnostic entities. Medical practitioners may help to reduce alcohol consumption. Data revealed that brief intervention, including computer-generated feedback in medical practice, is efficient in reducing consumption. It relieves the physician of counseling responsibilities.

scholarly journals El Compromiso Ético de la Medicina: A Propósito de la Obra de Alfred I. Tauber / The Ethical Commitment of Medicine

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ion Arrieta-Valero
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Commitment ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Toma De Decisiones ◽  
The One ◽  
Element Characteristic

ABSTRACTTaking as starting point the recent translation into Spanish of his book Confessions of a medicine man, his most personal and applauded work, this article reviews the work of Alfred I. Tauber, one of the most influential voices currently in U.S. medical humanities. Tauber’s work is already very extensive and presents a wide variety of themes, but it is possible to identify two main concerns: the attempt to justify and implement an alternative to autonomist ethics that today dominates the medical practice and decision making on the one hand; and on the other hand, the concern for the excessive penchant for science and technology that usually shows current medicine, which would have nothing objectionable if it had not sacrificed in a clumsy and unnecessary way the empathetic and humanist element characteristic of the art of caring.RESUMENTomando como punto de partida la reciente traducción al castellano de su libro Confesiones de un médico, su trabajo más personal y aplaudido, este artículo hace un repaso de la obra de Alfred I. Tauber, una de las voces más influyentes en la actualidad de las humanidades médicas norteamericanas. La obra de Tauber es ya muy extensa y de una gran variedad temática, pero es posible identificar las dos preocupaciones centrales que la animan: el intento de fundamentar e implantar una alternativa a la ética autonomista que a día de hoy domina el escenario de la práctica y la toma de decisiones médicas, por un lado; y por el otro, la inquietud por la excesiva querencia por la ciencia y la tecnología que generalmente muestra la medicina actual, lo cual no tendría nada de censurable si ello no supusiera sacrificar de una manera torpe e innecesaria el elemento empático y humanista propio del arte de cuidar.

Do Measures of Posttrauma Factors Better Explain PTSD Severity Than Pretrauma Factors? An Empirical Reply to Ogle et al. (2016)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. van der Velden ◽  
Leontien M. van der Knaap
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Trauma Memory ◽  
The One ◽  
Ptsd Symptomatology ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Potential Content

Ogle, Rubin, and Siegler (2016) concluded that postevent risk factors account for PTSD symptomatology much better than pretrauma factors. However, in their study several postevent predictors such as involuntary recall and physical reactions to trauma memory were related to and assessed simultaneously with PTSD symptomatology. Removing content-related items from the PTSD measure would, according to the authors, ensure that results were not being driven by potential content overlap. In the present prospective study ( N = 887) we test their assumption that removing such items prevents that results are overlap driven. Correlational and multiple regression analyses showed that the associations between pre-event mental health and neuroticism on the one side and PTSD symptomatology on the other were equal regardless of if and which symptom cluster of PTSD was removed from our PTSD measure. Based on these findings we conclude that Ogle et al.’s assumption needs to be rejected.

scholarly journals "Balada dos maus pensamentos" e outros poemas

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
João Luís Barreto Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literature And Medicine ◽  
Poetry Writing ◽  
The One

This piece of writing answers creatively to the question of how literature and medicine can be interrelated. Combining medical practice and poetry writing, the selected poems address the interruption of life through poetry, on the one hand, and the contamination of poetry by death, illness, pain and aging, on the other.

scholarly journals ECOLOGICAL METAPHORS IN DEBATES OVER LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE POLITICS IN CATALONIA (1999-2009)

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-298
Author(s):  
Carsten Sinner
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Supreme Courts ◽  
Language Ecology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

In the last two decades, the ecological approach has attracted the interest of Spanish and Catalan linguists. Nonetheless, until recently linguists stated a lack of connection of the fields of language ecology and language policy. The study of language and ecology has not yet become a matter of public interest; it only appears in scientific publications and the media using startling ecological metaphors such as threat of extinction, etc. This contribution analyses the language used both by professional linguists and laypeople in publications and in the public debate on the conflicts in Spanish and Catalan bilingualism in the decade before the constitutional and supreme courts ruled against the prevalence of the Catalan language in Catalonia (1999-2009). The decade analysed here can be characterized by a sensation of growing linguistic conflicts that manifested, for example, through heated debates over what Catalans perceived as life threatening for the Catalan language, on the one hand, and reactions such as demands for the introduction of additional teaching hours to prevent the alleged extinction of Spanish in Catalonia, on the other hand. The Catalan society is reliving the ghost of extinction of their language—probably reinforced by publications which denounce a continuous reduction of living space and the disappearance of more and more niches of the Catalan language. On the other hand, Castilian activists (and among them some linguists) maintain there is a battle the Castilian language in Catalonia has to win in order to survive the said-to-be ferocious reduction of its vital space and the asserted institutionalized suffocation or extermination of the Spanish language. The texts analysed in this contribution belong to a text series which regarding its content and aims corresponds to a reduced number of triggering reference texts. The aim is to determine the importance of the language of ecology in this field and the usage of these elements by both sides, those denouncing the threat of the Castilian language and those fearing the risk of extinction of the Catalan language. It will be shown that in the debate over the struggle for life of Catalan and Spanish in the Catalan speaking areas, the language of ecology and evolution is heavily used and that the re-contextualization of Catalan metaphors in the analysed Spanish texts is systematic.

Letter to The Times

2016 ◽  
pp. 39-40
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Faith Healing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scientific Training ◽  
Unpublished Letter ◽  
Total State ◽  
The Times ◽  
The One

In this unpublished letter to The Times, Winnicott points out some ill effects of a total state medical service, including the potential subservience of medical practice to politics rather than science. He reminds readers that already a Minister of Health without scientific training has would become the one to decide not to include osteopathy and faith-healing in the state medical service, which from the doctor’s point of view is just as bad as if he had decided the other way.

scholarly journals Lechebnaia pedagogika: The Concept and Practice of Therapy in Russian Defectology, c. 1880–1936

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-90
Author(s):  
Andy Byford
Keyword(s):  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Mode Of Action ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The One ◽  
Hybrid Forms ◽  
A Performance

Therapy is not simply a domain or form of medical practice, but also a metaphor for and a performance of medicine, of its functions and status, of its distinctive mode of action upon the world. This article examines medical treatment or therapy (in Russianlechenie), as concept and practice, in what came to be known in Russia as defectology (defektologiia) – the discipline and occupation concerned with the study and care of children with developmental pathologies, disabilities and special needs. Defectology formed an impure, occupationally ambiguous, therapeutic field, which emerged between different types of expertise in the niche populated by children considered ‘difficult to cure’, ‘difficult to teach’, and ‘difficult to discipline’. The article follows the multiple genealogy of defectological therapeutics in the medical, pedagogical and juridical domains, across the late tsarist and early Soviet eras. It argues that the distinctiveness of defectological therapeutics emerged from the tensions between its biomedical, sociopedagogical and moral-juridical framings, resulting in ambiguous hybrid forms, in which medical treatment strategically interlaced with education or upbringing, on the one hand, and moral correction, on the other.

Note on Selection of Coordinate Systems for Geodynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
S. Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The One ◽  
Static Systems ◽  
Selection Of

The first question to be answered, in seeking coordinate systems for geodynamics, is: what is geodynamics? The answer is, of course, that geodynamics is that part of geophysics which is concerned with movements of the Earth, as opposed to geostatics which is the physics of the stationary Earth. But as far as we know, there is no stationary Earth – epur sic monere. So geodynamics is actually coextensive with geophysics, and coordinate systems suitable for the one should be suitable for the other. At the present time, there are not many coordinate systems, if any, that can be identified with a static Earth. Certainly the only coordinate of aeronomic (atmospheric) interest is the height, and this is usually either as geodynamic height or as pressure. In oceanology, the most important coordinate is depth, and this, like heights in the atmosphere, is expressed as metric depth from mean sea level, as geodynamic depth, or as pressure. Only for the earth do we find “static” systems in use, ana even here there is real question as to whether the systems are dynamic or static. So it would seem that our answer to the question, of what kind, of coordinate systems are we seeking, must be that we are looking for the same systems as are used in geophysics, and these systems are dynamic in nature already – that is, their definition involvestime.

Stories and the Self

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Krause ◽  
Markus Appel
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lower Degree ◽  
Contrast Effects ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Abstract. Two experiments examined the influence of stories on recipients’ self-perceptions. Extending prior theory and research, our focus was on assimilation effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in line with a protagonist’s traits) as well as on contrast effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in contrast to a protagonist’s traits). In Experiment 1 ( N = 113), implicit and explicit conscientiousness were assessed after participants read a story about either a diligent or a negligent student. Moderation analyses showed that highly transported participants and participants with lower counterarguing scores assimilate the depicted traits of a story protagonist, as indicated by explicit, self-reported conscientiousness ratings. Participants, who were more critical toward a story (i.e., higher counterarguing) and with a lower degree of transportation, showed contrast effects. In Experiment 2 ( N = 103), we manipulated transportation and counterarguing, but we could not identify an effect on participants’ self-ascribed level of conscientiousness. A mini meta-analysis across both experiments revealed significant positive overall associations between transportation and counterarguing on the one hand and story-consistent self-reported conscientiousness on the other hand.

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