Helping physicians cope with their own chronic illnesses

Helping patients and their family caregivers cope with cancer.

Family caregivers face multiple demands as they care for their loved ones with cancer, and these demands have increased dramatically in recent years. Patients with cancer now receive toxic treatments in outpatient settings and return home to the care of their family members. Some patients receive in-home infusions, which were unheard of a few years ago. Family caregivers provide tasks that were...

Do physicians recognize their own best interests?

Helping physicians with alcohol problems.

A public health item in CMAJ pointed out that although the precise prevalence of problems with alcohol and other drugs among physicians is unknown, it is probably similar to that in the general population. Single and colleagues’ estimate of 9% was quoted. This estimate applies to current drinkers who have experienced any of a list of specific problems at least once in the past year; these indiv...

W9: Forum on Therapeutic Theater with Emphasis on Helping Children Cope With Stress and Mental Pressures

Using theater in the treatment as well as education traced back to several thousand years ago. In fact, drama therapy has been used for a long time in clinics and rehabilitation/treatment centers. Children theater experts intend to adopt this approach outside of the confined framework of clinics and make it as a general method in the society. In other words, let it face the theater’s large audi...

Helping parents cope with a cleft lip and palate.

O PSO M M IN G \ ir die leek is die gebied van 'n gesplete verhemelte in geheimsinnigheid en gebrekkige kennis gehul. ’n Gesplete lip en verhemelte wat nog nie herstel is nie is ’n onaangename en miskien selfs onstellende gesig, en ouers voel nie altyd heeltemal oortuig deur die gerusstellende woorde van dokters en verpleegsters dat plastiese chirurgie wonderlike werk aan babas met ’n gesplete ...