Alla inlägg om "attitude"
Research News25 February, 2014 by David FinerPolarized thinking about complementary, alternative and integrative care is negative, well, downright dangerous. It undermines the health care encounter and harms individuals and nations. This can be read in an opinion piece in the journal European Journal of Integrative Medicine, written by researchers at I C. Read more 
Tags: alternative medicine, attitude, CAM, complementary and alternative medicine, CritiCAM, David Finer, ethics, European Journal of Integrative Medicine, health care, health journalism, integrative care, Integrative Care Science Center, Jackie Schwartz, Johanna Hök, Maria Arman, mass media, Media Doctor, nursing, patient, polarization, pseudoscience, sceptics, Tobias Suundberg, Torkel Falkenberg, WHO
Research News20 September, 2013 by David FinerWomen do not integrate conventional and alternative medicine because they think it is a romantic or rebellious thing to do. They do it because they must. Health providers, after all, do not build any bridges. A diary study from Australian reveals the pragmatic approach of older women towards medical pluralism. Researchers view them as role models for all of us as consumers of the future. Read more
Tags: allopathic medicine, alternative medicine, attitude, Australia, autenticity, biomedicine, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, bridging gaps, CAM, complementary and alternative medicine, David Finer, diaries, disease, empowerment, gender, health, home remedies, independence, integrative care, integrative medicine, Internet, knowledge, lay activism, lay knowledge, mass media, meaning, medical pluralism, narrative analysis, natural, nature, network, networking, old wives tales, patient-doctor communication, personalised medicine, pragmatism, qualitative study, resistance, responsibility, self-care, TM, traditonal medicine, wellbeing, women, women´s health
Policy News2 September, 2013 by David FinerThe 15th European Skeptics Congress in Stockholm mobilized speakers from around 10 countries and about 160 participants. The theme of self-deception ran through most contributions. The lectures will air on the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company´s Educational Channel later this fall. This is the first report by I C´s medical reporter David Finer. Read more
Tags: alternative medicine, attitude, Bemuddler Prize, CAM, communication, David Finer, deception, irrational, prayer, skeptics, Vetenskap och Folkbildning, VoF
Research News15 August, 2013 by David FinerThe concept of personalized medicine has become synonymous with risk factor identification and treatment. But according to a German study, our understanding of the term is in fact more in line with personal development, integrative care, authenticity, self-determination and wellbeing. Values which we look for in complementary, alternative and integrative care. Read more
Tags: attitude, authenticity, biomarker, Brigitte Franzel, CAM, communication, complementary and alternative medicine, conceptions, cytochrome P450, David Finer, discourse, ethnography, grapefruit, health care, individualized medicine, integrative medicine, meaning, narrative, patient, patient-doctor communication, person-centered, personalized medicine, research
Policy News13 August, 2013 by David FinerDo you like to think of alternative medicine as a David figure nobly struggling against the evil Goliath of mainstream, allopathic medicine? Well, think again, Dr. Paul Offit, seems to say in a new book. Read more
Tags: alternative medicine, attitude, ayurveda, CAM, commerce, contamination, David Finer, FDA, harm, lead, liver damage, Medical Product Agency, National Food Agency, poisoning, side effects, sildenafil, supplements, vaccine, Viagra
Policy News12 March, 2013 by David FinerIs the health care system patient-centered? Hardly. Because by definition, if it were, the word itself would be superfluous, right? The concept exists because – as everyone who has ever been a patient or a “significant other” knows to their detriment – health care is a world unto itself, where as a patient, you sometimes feel like an uninvited guest. Read more
Tags: Agency for health care analysis, alternative, Angela Coulter, attitude, communication, compassion, complementary medicine, continuity, ethics, holistic, integrative care, media, option, paternalism, patient, patient satisfaction, patient-centered, professionalism, research, service
Research News17 September, 2012 by David FinerA national Swedish survey shows for the first time that a majority of surgeons want to learn more about CAM, Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The study was carried out in 2010-2011 by Kristofer Bjerså, RN and collaborators at the Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University and is published in the journal BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The […] Read more
Tags: acupuncture, attitude, bias, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, CAM, complementary and alternative medicine, David Finer, Gothenburg, healing, herbal, integrative medicine, knowledge, Kristoffer Bjerså, manual therapy, massage, Nils-Olof Jacobson, nutrion, nutritional supplement, qualitative, qualitative research, qualitative study, quantitative, quantitative research, quantitative study, Sahlgrenska Academy, social psychiatry, study bias, surgery, surgical, yoga
