Compassionate care

Compassionate Care

What does Islam have to offer health-care ethics that cannot be found elsewhere? I do not mean to suggest that there is only one answer to this question, because there are many. However, I will focus on the elevated status of the patient as the recipient of compassionate care. Today, the primary medical ethical issue is no longer a quandary such as “Should we withdraw artificial nutrition and h...

The design of compassionate care.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To investigate the tension between individual and organisational responses to contemporary demands for compassionate interactions in health care. BACKGROUND Health care is often said to need more compassion among its practitioners. However, this represents a rather simplistic view of the issue, situating the problem with individual practitioners rather than focusing on the...

Leading Imaging Technology Compassionate Patient Care

Today, CT has assumed the diagnostic role as the primary urologic imaging modality. The diagnostic value of urological CT is threefold. First, unenhanced CT has essentially replaced the IVP as the imaging test of choice for patients with symptoms of acute renal colic. Second, CT has proven to be a superior test for detecting and characterizing renal parenchymal masses and third, CT urography ha...

Towards compassionate care through aesthetic rationality.

The Francis Report, which was based on the investigation of complaints regarding standards of care in the Staffordshire NHS Trust in the UK, was published in 2013. The Report revealed that while the Trust appeared to be compliant with the standards set by official regulating bodies, the quality of care provided to patients was often appalling. While the Report constituted a 'critical moment' in...

Enabling compassionate care in acute hospital settings