(Doctors' stories) Book link: https://www.empik.com/tu-ratuje-sie-zycie-opracowanie- collective,p1228302534,ksiazka-p The author is a Polish doctor with many years of experience in smaller and larger centres. As a member of the medical community, he is an eyewitness...
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A real doctor is about to be. A year in the life of a trainee
Book link: https://www.empik.com/prawdziwy-lekarz-zaraz-bedzie-rok-z- the-life-of-a-statistician-mccarthy-matt,p1241917575,book-p Matt McCarthy dreamed that he would be the perfect doctor, able to reach patients with whom no one had ever made contact before. However.
A difficult case. True stories of Polish doctors
(Doctors' stories) Book link: https://www.empik.com/przypadek-ktorego-nie-zapomne-fijewska- marianna,p1237828520,ksiazka-p Surgeon, internist, gynaecologist. Psychiatrist with decades of experience and a budding hospice trainee. Nurse...
Nurses' secrets. Truth and prejudice
(Nursing) Book link: https://www.empik.com/tajemnice-pielegniarek-prawda-i- prejudices-fijewska-marianna,p1246394317,ksiazka-p They are 'at the bedside' of the patient, constantly under review - patients, families, doctors. They arouse extreme emotions - from adoration,...
Christmas duty
Book link: https://www.empik.com/swiateczny-dyzur-kay- adam,p1231966040,ksiazka-p The writer, based on old diaries, humorously tells you how thankless the job of a doctor on Christmas duty is. From his book you will not only learn how...
It will hurt
'It's going to hurt. The Secret Diary of a Young Doctor by Adam Kay is the author's account of working as a young doctor in the UK's National Health Service (NHS) hospitals between 2004 and 2010. Working as a gynaecologist, obstetrician and surgeon, in his career Kay encountered...
33 readings on communication, or how to be a good doctor and not go crazy
(communication) Link to the book https://www.mp.pl/ksiegarnia/produkt/3230 "Written with verve, flair, humour and distance to the problems around us, these stories from the daily lives of doctors and patients provide a broader perspective on the context of doctor-patient communication....
Quality of life in chronic visible illness and feelings of stigma in young women,
The aim of this study is to verify the assumption that the impact of the so-called social audience and the evaluation of chronic illness as dependent on the patient differentiates the sense of experienced stigma and the evaluation of health-related quality of life. Additionally, it can be hypothesised that in...
MORAL ASPECTS OF 'QUALITY OF LIFE' IN PALLIATIVE CARE
"Quality of life" is one of the important categories found in palliative care provided to patients in the final (terminal) stage of their illness, most often cancer. The concept of 'quality of life' refers to the extremely important reality that...
Problem of disease acceptance and quality of life in patients with heart failure
Introduction. Chronic heart failure (HF, heart failure), is a serious health problem that is associated with reduced quality of life (QoL, quality of life) of patients. Health status significantly affects a person's life and functioning, consequently affecting the assessment of quality of ...
Assessing the quality of life of family members of terminal cancer patients in the home setting
Introduction. The terminal period is a time when the options for further prolonging the life of a chronically ill person by direct action on the cause of the illness have been exhausted, and the patient needs to be cared for. The family then encounters a range of problems, including...
Selected aspects of quality of life in people with osteoarthritis of the spine and joints
Introduction: The ageing population is characterised by an increase in the prevalence of a number of diseases typical of geriatric age, which impede the functioning of the elderly and impair their quality of life. These include diseases of the skeletal and...
Quality of life as a positive indicator of health
Among the indicators describing the health status of the population and its representative groups, we usually use a dichotomous division based on the assessment of selected parameters of human biological functioning and on epidemiological measures that take into account the direction,...
ENDOMETRIOSIS AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Endometriosis is a disease involving the implantation of endometrial structures outside the uterine cavity. In Poland, about 1 million women suffer from it. The problem is serious, but still underestimated. Endometriosis is characterised by three main symptoms: pelvic pain,...
EXPERIENCING SOMATIC CHRONIC ILLNESS AND SENSE OF QUALITY OF LIFE. A PHILOSOPHICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE
The experience of illness, particularly somatic chronic illness, can often be associated with a great sense of discomfort and, consequently, with the patient's belief that their quality of life has been significantly reduced. The sense of quality of life is a subjective category,...