Respect, trust, care and interconnectedness

Doctors' communication of trust, care, and respect in breast cancer: qualitative study.

OBJECTIVE To determine how patients with breast cancer want their doctors to communicate with them. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING Breast unit and patients' homes. PARTICIPANTS 39 women with breast cancer. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Patients' reports of doctors' characteristics or behaviour that they valued or deprecated. RESULTS Patients were not primarily concerned with doctors' commun...

Syndication, Interconnectedness, and Systemic Risk∗

This paper studies the interconnectedness of banks in the syndicated loan market as a major source of systemic risk. We develop a set of novel measures to describe the "distance" (similarity) between two banks’syndicated loan portfolios and find that such distance explains how banks are interconnected in this market. As lead arrangers choose to work with those that have a similar focus in terms...

Interconnectedness of anatomy.

1 Interconnectedness in heliophysics

The volumes on heliophysics, of which this is the third, emphasize universal processes for which some basic physical phenomenon manifests itself in a variety of circumstances throughout the local cosmos and beyond. The topics range from the variability of the star next to which we live to the distant interstellar medium, via planetary environments including, in particular, geospace in which a m...

a comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...