The Sacred Cow in Orthopaedics

Care: Effective Care Delivery or Sacred Cow?

Family-centred care as a way to care for children in hospitals has become ubiquitous in the world of paediatrics. It evolved from work of pioneers in theories of maternal and child attachment, and paralleled the evolution of paediatric nursing as an academic (and evidencegenerating) discipline. However, in the last decade, doubts have been sewn as to its efficacy and workability, due to the lac...

Golden Calf or Holy Cow? Animals and the Sacred

Gradual disclosure by sexual assault victims--a sacred cow?

Engaging the sacred in treatment

Torture by its very nature creates distress in part related to the intentionality of the trauma inflicted. Consequently, it is necessary for clinicians to address many of the existential concerns that arise in the course of treatment. Often in clinical training, issues of spirituality are deferred to spiritual caregivers. It is important when working with torture survivors to consider the myria...

Outcomes evaluation in orthopaedics.