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Cancer patients speak up
Effective communication is not an option," according to clinical psychologist Bernard Bandman. "It's a necessity."
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Center awarded grant from the Lenny Zakim Fund
The Center for Communication In Medicine® has received a grant from the Lenny Zakim Fund to present community education programs which explore the patient's experience of illness and its impact on families, friends and the medical practitioners who care for them.
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"Writing Is Good Medicine™" selected for national conference
Writing is Good Medicine™, an expressive writing program for patients, will be presented by Celia Engel Bandman at The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine, a national conference which will focus on the links between the science of medicine and the art of writing.
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Center helps produce "Voices Of Cancer" for NPR
On this program it's very easy to talk about cancer as a thing, a consequence, something that needs to be researched and battled and studied some more. What is sometimes difficult to remember is that cancer is a living invader inside a real person, someone with dreams, a family, a life.
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Touchpoints
The Institute of Medical Humanism (IMH), based in Bennington, Vermont, recently produced an educational film entitled, "Voices from the Lived World of Illness: Advanced Cancer", which grew out of a 2002 Schwartz Center grant.
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Other Voices: Bridging the Gap
Doctors and patients speak different languages. One is the urgent, statistics-peppered talk of treatment protocols and cure rates. The other is a language of suffering and hope.
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Forum Highlights Challenges of Talking with Doctors
We will all be patients some day and good care will depend on how well we communicate. But, we don't speak the same language and we must make sure we understand one another.
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How We Say It: On Medical Humanism
Getting the voice of the patient into the history of present illness will not only help to right the medical record but also help to right the relationship of physician and patient.
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