Patient Support Groups are an Important Component of Your Toolbox for Patient Education

A New Source for Your Patient-oriented Education

Surveys of practicing urologists have shown again and again that the time we actually have available for reading journals, medical newspapers, and attending lectures for Continuing Medical Education has continued to diminish at an alarming rate. Some studies suggest that the average physician can realistically spend only 15 minutes a week in furthering their education. What we choose to read du...

Patient Education Improvement: an Interventional Study in Iran

Analyzing Patient Interactions within Cancer Support Groups

Cancer is the leading cause of death in the developed world, claiming the lives of approximately 7.6 million people in 2008 alone [1]. Cancer treatment, be it by surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy or any combination thereof, is often debilitating, and its e ects can be felt for years even among patients who have been "successfully" treated for cancer. These treatments often lead to a host of c...

Patient Safety: An Injectable Education

Until recently, the effects of all injectable filling agents were temporary and very rarely associated with permanent problems. In the past, the permanent injectable silicone had been used but had been so problematic that the Justice Department filed injunctions against certain physicians on behalf of the FDA. After 2000 a dangerous pattern grew in the corridors of Washington DC, where politics...

Patient health education--an experiment.

Changes in life style, stimulated through planned education intervention by the professionals in health care system, can be obtained, do have an impact, and are absolutely essential (Simond, 1974). This has of course resulted in the various Health Education Programmes of the Ministry of Health Malaysia. The burden of bringing about this change should not only be the responsibility of the genera...