Pacjent w centrum rozmowy na przykładzie prac studentów kierunków medycznych

This paper presents the main assumptions of patient-centred care, which emphasises the importance of getting to know and taking into account the patient’s perspective throughout the treatment process. The aim of this study is to demonstrate how communication skills, which are taught as part of classes in medical communication, facilitate the provision of patient-centred care. The paper discusses selected communication skills and presents fragments of students’ assignments demonstrating the practical application of the acquired skills. The studies provide examples of utterances fostering the exchange of perspectives and building of a common look at the patient’s problem and reinforcing the patient’s sense of being in the centre of care.

Wyrażenie Certyfikat „Super HoSpa” i jego rola w kształtowaniu obrazu opieki paliatywnej we współczesnym dyskursie medycznym

This paper is an analysis of the expression hospa, which is a part of the name Certyfi kat „Super HoSpa” (“Super HoSpa” Certifi cate), a distinction awarded to the best Polish hospices by the Rak’n’Roll Foundation. The neologism hospa is described in terms of its formal structure (as a contamination compound) and at the conceptual level (as a cognitive amalgam) using G. Fauconnier and M. Turner’s conceptual blending theory. Based on dictionary and corpus data as well as texts concerning hospices with the title “Super HoSpa”, the author reconstructs the representation of a patient-friendly hospice. What serves as a background for the description is the issues of palliative medicine and care and the stereotypical image of hospice established in the society, which the creators of the certifi cate are trying to “disenchant”, also through language.

Jaki jest empatyczny lekarz? Obraz empatii lekarza w opiniach zamieszczonych w portalu znanylekarz.pl .

The paper provides a corpus-based semantic analysis of patients’ opinions on doctors published on the ZnanyLekarz.pl web portal. The analysis is aimed at depicting the medical professionals’ traits and behaviours that patients interpret as expressions of empathy. The fi ndings suggest that while patients value the doctor’s empathy, they perceive it as a relatively rare quality in doctors. The sphere where empathy manifests itself to the greatest extent is undoubtedly doctor–patient communication: unhurried interview, active listening, explaining the course of the necessary medical procedures, responding to the patient’s questions, showing emotional support. Although the fi ndings coincide with the recommendations found in the communication guides addressed to doctors, taking into account the perspective of the patient is necessary, since patients’ perception of empathy may not correlate perfectly with doctors’ self-assessment.

Pacjent nie współpracuje” – socjopragmatyka (nie)porozumienia w ochronie zdrowia

Communication between patients and medical professionals is characterised by frequent misunderstandings due to medical, psychological, and relational considerations arising to a large extent from unfamiliarity with specialised medical language. Such processes can be exemplifi ed by the phrase pacjent nie współpracuje (lit. the patient is not cooperating), which has a specifi c meaning in medical language and can be interpreted by patients as evaluating them negatively. Understanding in this communication must be reached through negotiation of the meaning of specialist words, expressions, and phrases.

Litewska mniejszość narodowa w Polsce – język i społeczność

This paper is dedicated to Lithuanians, one of the smallest national minorities in Poland. It characterises the Lithuanian community, which densely populates the Podlasie region in three clusters (Puńsk, Sejny, Suwałki). The study presents the last century’s history of the Lithuanian education and culture, including differences between the Puńsk and Sejny centres. Lithuanians’ strong sense of national identity is closely connected with their mother tongue, culture and traditions. The minority’s community nature is evidenced by the high prestige and broad scope of use of the native dialect. The functions of the primary and secondary languages are clearly specifi ed by the Lithuanian- or Polish-speaking recipient. The transformations occurring in the Southern Aukštaitian dialect are aimed at unifi cation of the Sejny and Puńsk dialects in younger people’s speech and creation of a regiolect. Interference under a strong infl uence of the Polish language is noticeable at all levels of the primary language

XIX-wieczny słowniczek gwarowy z Podlasia Zygmunta Wasilewskiego jako przyczynek do dziejów polskiej leksykografi i gwarowej .

The subject matter described in this paper is the lexicographic work of Zygmunt Wasilewski, a lawyer, politician, columnist, literary critic, which refers to his 19th-century glossary from the Podlasie region. When characterising this small collection of words (282 headwords), the macrostructure and microstructure of the glossary is taken into consideration. Its lexical material is fi rst of all a source of knowledge about the oldest state of Podlasie dialects and research on Polish dialects overall, but it also offers an insight in the methods of this unqualifi ed lexicographer, enthusiast of “folk things”, amateur ethnographer and dialectologist.