The Care of the Patient
Francis Peabody, MD
JAMA. 1927;88(12):877-882
“The most common criticism made at present by older practitioners is that young graduates have been taught a great deal about the mechanism of disease, but very little about the practice of medicine—or to put it more bluntly, they are too “scientific” and do not know how to [...]
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In the most recent Archives of Internal Medicine, investigators examined the pervasive but poorly understood issue of “the difficult patient encounter” (Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(4):410-414). The authors write “Nearly 1 of 6 outpatient visits is considered difficult by physicians. Difficult encounters are more likely to occur with patients who have a mental disorder, present with [...]
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14 - 15 June 2007 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour
The Dalai Lama and a faculty of expert speakers from Australia and overseas will explore the techniques for achieving peace and happiness at this conference. It is a two day conference featuring up to 50 leading minds from psychology, science, philosophy, and [...]
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(Aug 14, 2009 — Aug 19, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=196)
Using the Five Buddha Family Mandala as a base, we explore practices, processes, and perspectives on how the capacity for servant-leadership is culitivated by bearing witness to the charnel grounds of life. This brave practice forms the base for socially-engaged practice, social change work, and peacemaking.
Servant-leadership [...]
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(Aug 05, 2009 — Aug 09, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=193)
This exceptional program explores through teaching, interactive sessions, and meditation the neurological basis of social intelligence. Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) is a way of thinking about the experience of being human and how we develop well-being in our lives and the life of the world through the [...]
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(May 29, 2009 — May 31, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=187)
In this weekend retreat, Dr. Wallace focuses on two methods for cultivating meditative quiescence, or shamatha. In addition to exploring the important neuroscience research being done on Dr. Wallace’s Shamatha project, he will teach, shamatha, the practice of “mindfulness of breathing”, which is an effective approach [...]
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(Apr 26, 2009 — May 03, 2009 and Oct 11, 2009 — Oct 18, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=184)
This revolutionary and practical training program for health care professionals gives essential tools for work with dying people and their families. Designed for physicians, nurses, social workers, hospice workers, and clergy, the training covers core issues related to dying, death, and grieving; ethical issues [...]
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As health care providers we find ourselves in a sea of pain and suffering. How do we deal with this fact? Commonly we close ourselves off to the true immensity of the suffering around us as a self-preservation tactic because we are afraid of what might happen were we to truly open. We wonder “how [...]
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From the November Annals of Internal Medicine. While not explicitly Buddhist, the 8 skills identified as “healing skills” are conspicuously compatible with (if not fully supported by) a Buddhist understanding of ethics and being in the world.
“It is well recognized that physicians’ relationships with their patients can have healing effects, but the skills in this area of [...]
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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 [...]
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