Emotional support for cancer patients: what do patients really want?

What do patients really want to know?

A 60-year-old male patient presents to his primary care physician complaining of recent fatigue. The work-up reveals iron-deficiency anaemia due to carcinoma of the ascending colon, which has extensively metastasized to the liver. Had this illness occurred in the early 1960s, when a pater-nalistic approach to medicine was at its height, the physician might have chosen to tell the patient that h...

What patients really want from health care.

IN 2012, PERHAPS THE MOST WIDELY SCRUTINIZED SECtor of the economy in North America will be the health care industry. Politicians, policy analysts, academics, and the public share concerns about the state of health care in both the United States and Canada. However, each of these constituencies has a different perspective. Most sectors of the economy are characterized by a supply side that focu...

What do your employees really want?

What do psychiatric inpatients really want?

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Social comparison and patient information: what do cancer patients want?

The present study focuses on social comparison processes among cancer patients. The sample consisted of 60 (ex-) cancer patients who participated in a course "coping with cancer". This study examined several aspects of social comparison: the need for comparison, the preferred direction of comparison and the influence of mode (information or contact seeking) and dimension (illness severity or co...