Suspending disbelief: do we unfairly distrust our patients?

Do We Tell Our Coronary Patients Enough?

SUMMARY Thirty two men and their wives discussed their experiences of the admission to hospital and subsequent rehabilitation following a threatened or confirmed myocar-dial infarction. Over all, the level of information and understanding about their condition was poor. Patients would have liked to have had more specific advice about rehabilitation and to have been told more about their conditi...

We Do It for Our Patients.

I was told by a nurse attending a CCRN/PCCN review course that he had no intention of sitting for the certification examination. His response when I asked why was, “I will not be paid any more, my hospital does not pay for the test, and frankly I just don’t see any reason to do it.” When asked why he had come to the review course, he answered “Oh, I like to learn, it was free, and I’m being pai...

Suspending Virtual Disbelief: A Perspective on Narrative Coherence

The paper accommodates Espen Aarseth’s concept of virtuality and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s concept of suspension of disbelief to the context of modern story forms. The primary focus will be on the videogame. The premise is that suspending disbelief at narrative improbabilities is a skill required to construct narrative coherence. Constructing narrative coherence of stories that contain virtual ...

Do we own our bodies?

do we need to screen our patients for ebv igg antibody before kidney transplantation?