Letter: Coping with minor casualties.

Balancing Illness and Parental Demands: Coping With Cancer While Raising Minor Children.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore the cancer experience of parents and their perceptions of supportive strategies to assist them with illness- and family-related challenges. DESIGN Qualitative, descriptive design. SETTING A large McGill University-affiliated hospital cancer care center in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. PARTICIPANTS Five mothers and seven fathers aged 33-67 years with a first cance...

Student Casualties

health, fail at their work or drop out of university. A university is a specialised community, with a particular pattern of selection, varying techniques for processing its material and with a 'wastage rate' that is of national concern. There are special stresses?social, academic and cultural?to which its population are subject. These can erode a vulnerable, developing personality, provoke a la...

Triage of Chemical Casualties

Coping with Kidney Disease Coping with Kidney Disease

Will reading habit influence your life? Many say yes. Reading coping with kidney disease coping with kidney disease is a good habit; you can develop this habit to be such interesting way. Yeah, reading habit will not only make you have any favourite activity. It will be one of guidance of your life. When reading has become a habit, you will not make it as disturbing activities or as boring acti...

Casualties of the sun.

A retrospective review was carried out of all sunburn related attendances, during the periods 1/6/94-31/8/94 and 1/6/95-31/8/95, at the four A&E departments and at one of the general practices within the Northern Health and Social Services Board area. Four hundred and thirty patients had attended. The modal age group was 16-30 years. More males presented than females. Within the sexes more male...