To Take Care of Patients Well, Physicians Must Take Care of Themselves

Smart Clothes to Take Care of People or Smart People Who Use Clothes to Take Care of Themselves?

Since the dawn of human life, we have used clothes and accessories to protect our health and defend ourselves from the elements and danger. From the mid-1990s onward, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began to explore the possibility of incorporating microprocessors into textiles. Since then, 3 areas of innovation have strongly promoted the development of smart clothing...

Cognitive Remediation to Take Care of Schizophrenic Patients Today

This article is about specificity of schizophrenia care with the evolution of these last years and the help of Cognitive Remediation to improve the quality of life and the insertion of these patients. First, we describe the criteria of international classifications (DSM V and ICD 10) and the fact that they are not completely the same. To illustrate this limit, we define the frequent case of bri...

Dignity in care: time to take action.

Providing care for patients and caring about patients should go hand in hand. Caring implicates our fundamental attitude towards patients, and our ability to convey kindness, compassion and respect. Yet all too often, patients and families experience health care as impersonal, mechanical; and quickly discover that patienthood trumps personhood. The consequences of a medical system organized aro...

Gardens that take care of us.

After a long period of absence, hospital and care-facility gardens are making a comeback. But these new gardens are not just ornamental. They aim to improve wellbeing. Some are even designed to change the outcome of disease—including neurological disease. Adrian Burton investigates.

Surgeons Take on End-of-Life Care.