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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'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...

(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....

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...

"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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 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,...

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,...

The social consequences of cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that affects just over 1,500 people in Poland, of whom only about 100 reach the age of 30 or more, are rarely studied from the perspective of the sociology of medicine. The nature of the disease requires great efforts ...

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women. The diagnosis of this disease marks the beginning of a long road and a difficult fight against the disease for a woman. A mastectomy, or amputation of the breast, is an irreversible systemic process. For the patient, it is a traumatic experience....

Introduction: Psoriasis is a chronic, relapsing, inflammatory, non-infectious skin disease characterised by increased keratinocyte proliferation, leading to a significant decrease in somatic functioning and quality of life in patients. Objective: To determine the ...

This article deals with the analysis of quality of life taking into account health status. The authors define the term quality of life. They characterise quality of life using subjective as well as objective instruments. They devote considerable attention to generic questionnaires (generic...