Physicians’ dignified retirement

Moving Forward: Retirement Opportunities for Senior Physicians.

As national and local medical organizations explore how to assess senior physicians and their competence and skill, it is important for physicians to understand that retirement can be an exciting, interesting, and significant life stage in and of itself. Many opportunities may exist – both within and outside of health care – to allow these physicians who no longer practice, to continue to live ...

Dignified death or legislated resuscitation?

Nursing interventions to promote dignified dying in four countries.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe nursing interventions to promote dignified dying as identified by nurses in four countries. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey design. SETTING Hospitals and clinics in Ethiopia, India, Kenya, and the United States. SAMPLE A convenience sample of 560 nurses who cared for dying patients in Ethiopia (n = 14), India (n = 229), Kenya (n = 36), and the United States (n...

Sport retirement

Abstract The purpose of the present study was to examine the process of retirement from professional sport from perspective of sports administrator and retired athletes. This survey was descriptive that 42 administrators and 70 retired athletes from Guilan province took part in it. Data gathered through SCT questionnaire which it's content and face validity was confirmed by 15 experts and re...

The right to a dignified death--need for debate.

This issue has fascinated and troubled sensitive and concerned persons through the centuries. Plato, in The Republic, condemned physicians who allowed patients to suffer from lingering death and suggested euthanasia. So did Senaca when he raised the query of whether man is lengthening his life or death. Well known philosophers and writers who have justified or supported the cause of individuals...