Do doctors and other healthcare providers need emotional intelligence? How can we instill/teach/train or otherwise provide a more comprehensive (and sensitive) skill set to healthcare? BMJ Careers - Emotional intelligence
If we define health as physical, social, and emotional wellbeing, and not just the absence of infirmity, then surely we must train our healthcare practitioners in a much more interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and holistic way. We must truly bring a feminine sensibility to the masculine dominated environment of healthcare!
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Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts
Saturday, November 20, 2010
A thoughtless practice with short-term benefits and long-term pitfalls!
http://www.superkidsnutrition.com/nutrition_answers/pr_candy-as-reward.php
For those of you who believe, as I do, that there are much better ways to reward children for good behavior, please share the more positive incentives you've used. Remember: rewards can be either intrinsic or extrinsic.
For those of you who believe, as I do, that there are much better ways to reward children for good behavior, please share the more positive incentives you've used. Remember: rewards can be either intrinsic or extrinsic.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Health
Human Ecology units are often combined or somehow reorganized with Education or Health. Either combination has the potential to work, depending on the cultures of the units involved and the leadership's commitment to making the new configuration work. Often it makes no practical difference at all. Different dean, same programs, life goes on.
As we talk about how we fit into health focused colleges, which I am not in principle opposed to (and which I think is consistent with the overall philosophy of our discipline), we need to be actively engaged in the process. If we are to fit into some new transdisciplinary concept of health, it helps to have a good definition of health to guide our leadership as they determine what fits with what. I suggest WHO's definition:
WHO definition of Health
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
The correct bibliographic citation for the definition is:
Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19-22 June, 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April 1948.
The Definition has not been amended since 1948.
http://www.who.int/about/definition/en/print.html.
As we talk about how we fit into health focused colleges, which I am not in principle opposed to (and which I think is consistent with the overall philosophy of our discipline), we need to be actively engaged in the process. If we are to fit into some new transdisciplinary concept of health, it helps to have a good definition of health to guide our leadership as they determine what fits with what. I suggest WHO's definition:
WHO definition of Health
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
The correct bibliographic citation for the definition is:
Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19-22 June, 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April 1948.
The Definition has not been amended since 1948.
http://www.who.int/about/definition/en/print.html.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Remembering Ted
What does Ted Kennedy have to do with FCS? I'm not sure right now, I'm just sad that he's gone. Although, come to think of it, he stood for everything we in FCS have stood for and ought to stand for now: making sure that people's basic needs are met, fighting for healthcare for children, fighting for civil rights, early intervention...standing up for those who are too young, old, frail, or just plain powerless to stand up for themselves. He did this tirelessly until he was old and frail himself. We could borrow some of that spirit.
I'm not just sad about Ted--I'm sad about losing all three Kennedy brothers. But the best thing we can do to honor their memory is to carry on their work. Otherwise--what's the phrase? The terrorists win? There are all sorts of terrorists: Some assassinate great leaders in the prime of their lives. But there are less violent forms of terrorism. Some try to scare people into voting against their own self interest. Some try to shout people down in town hall meetings. Others threaten to pull out of AAFCS if we dare to discuss topics they view as off limits. Surprising how effective scare tactics can be.
But now it's finally time to do the hard thing, and stand up for issues that aren't always popular with all of our members. I know so many of our members think the way I do. I have no patience with the passive complicity of silence. We must not be afraid to say what we know is right. As Ted so eloquently put it, "...For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
I'm not just sad about Ted--I'm sad about losing all three Kennedy brothers. But the best thing we can do to honor their memory is to carry on their work. Otherwise--what's the phrase? The terrorists win? There are all sorts of terrorists: Some assassinate great leaders in the prime of their lives. But there are less violent forms of terrorism. Some try to scare people into voting against their own self interest. Some try to shout people down in town hall meetings. Others threaten to pull out of AAFCS if we dare to discuss topics they view as off limits. Surprising how effective scare tactics can be.
But now it's finally time to do the hard thing, and stand up for issues that aren't always popular with all of our members. I know so many of our members think the way I do. I have no patience with the passive complicity of silence. We must not be afraid to say what we know is right. As Ted so eloquently put it, "...For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
Friday, August 21, 2009
Health Care Reform
Check out this healthcare reform debate between John Stewart and Betsy McCaughey. It's a kind of long one, as you can imagine: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-17-2009/exclusive---betsy-mccaughey-extended-interview-pt--1
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