Buddhist inspired resources for physicians and other health care professionals.
Posted in Burnout, Medical Education, Mindfulness in Medicine on Oct 25th, 2008
I often hear this expression in the hospital coming from those with some degree of equanimity about the inevitable and frustrating vicissitudes one encounters in the health care system. When health-care practitioners are confronted with dreaded or unanticipated outcomes and situations are scrutinized endlessly in search of uncovering what went wrong or how things may [...]
Posted in Burnout, Medical Education, Mindfulness in Medicine on Oct 23rd, 2008
“The path to happiness and a sense of well-being in this very life lies not in avoiding suffering but in using the conscious, embodied, direct experience of it as a vehicle to gain deep insight into the true nature of life and your own existence.”
Words of wisdom for the burned-out medical practitioner, from Phillip Moffitt’s [...]
Posted in Compassion, Death & Dying, Medical Education on Oct 19th, 2008
My topic today is the role that meditation can play in facing issues of pain, illness and death – not a pleasant topic, but an important one. Sadly, it’s only when people are face-to-face with a fatal illness that they start thinking about these issues, and often by that point it’s too late to get fully [...]
Posted in Medical Education, Social Action / Engaged Buddhism, Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2008
When medical professionals and Buddhist clergy work together, the Buddhist patient will have a greater sense of acceptance, be encouraged to focus on both mind and body, and in the process transcend pain and suffering.
for full text go to: http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma8/health.html
Posted in Medical Education, for nurses on Sep 22nd, 2008
J Holist Nurs. 2007 Dec;25(4):228-35; discussion 236-7
Ross R, Sawatphanit W, Suwansujarid T.
Kent State University, USA.
PURPOSE: This study examines the Buddhist beliefs and practices of Thai HIV-positive postpartum women as ways to live with their infection. METHOD: Seven HIV-positive postpartum, Buddhist, Thai women were interviewed. Principles of hermeneutic phenomenology guided the study. FINDINGS: All women in [...]
Posted in Death & Dying, Medical Education, Medical Ethics on Sep 22nd, 2008
Volume 366, Issue 9489, 10 September 2005-16 September 2005, Pages 952-955, by D. Keown
End of life: the Buddhist view
In many Asian cultures, Buddhism is acknowledged as the religion that has most to say about death and the afterlife. Buddhist teachings emphasise the ubiquity and inevitability of death, and for this reason, Buddhists tend to [...]
Posted in Death & Dying, Hospice, Palliative Care, for nurses on Sep 22nd, 2008
by Anne Bruce
RN PhD
The perception of time shifts as patients enter hospice care. As a complex, socially determined construct, time plays a significant role in end-of-life care. Drawing on Buddhist and Western perspectives, conceptualizations of linear and cyclical time are discussed alongside notions of time as interplay of embodied experience and concept. Buddhist [...]
Posted in Medical Education on Sep 19th, 2008
The authors of this article propose that the scientific concept of emotional intelligence has the potential to deepen understanding of the competency: interpersonal and communication skills. Although EI may relate to the other competencies as well, notably professionalism, this Commentary focuses on describing how EI contributes to interpersonal and communication skills.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/300/10/1200?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=emotional+intelligence&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
Posted in Medical Education, for nurses on Sep 19th, 2008
Western thought has dominated scientific development for a long time, and nursing has not escaped the influence of such ideology. Nurse scholars, in an attempt to fit the dominant scientific ideology, typically have had to struggle with non-empirical elements of nursing. This orientation in science, however, may have contributed inadvertently to a form of scientific [...]