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Death Education and Physicians' Attitudes toward Dying Patients:
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Physicians with formal coursework tended to relate somewhat differently to the dying patient than did physicians who did not take such a course as four of the eleven Likert-type statements on relating to dying patients revealed a statistically significant relationship.Abstract:
The literature suggests that physicians have difficulty relating to dying patients. Medical schools traditionally have not addressed themselves to this issue. The object of this research was to det...read more
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The impact of death education
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Cancer care--a stress for health professionals.
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Relationships among death anxiety, communication apprehension with the dying, and empathy in those seeking occupations as nurses and physicians.
TL;DR: Main effects for year in school indicated that seniors scored lower than freshmen on communication apprehension with the dying, and multivariate effects for field of study were also significant, with univariate results indicating that nursing students scored higher than controls on communication apprehending the dying.
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Boys in White
TL;DR: This book is a report, comprehensible to the layman, but of particular interest to those concerned with medical education, of a sociological study conducted in 1956 and 1957 at the medical school of the University of Kansas.
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The need for including instruction on death and dying in the medical curriculum.
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Psychotherapy of the dying patient.
TL;DR: This sensitive paper is a very good example of how analytical insights can be applied in short-term therapy to a frequently recurring clinical situation.