WHY DYING DOESNʼT SEEM TO MATTER

Why Does Time Seem to Pass

According to the B-theory, the passage of time is an illusion. Although times are objectively ordered, with every time earlier or later than every other, no time is objectively past, present or future. The A-theory, by contrast, says that time passes. Here I shall use the term ‘A-theory’ to include any ‘dynamic’ view of time; the term thus encompasses presentism, growing block theories and shri...

Why exemplary oncology nurses seem to avoid compassion fatigue.

The goal of this phenomenological study was to explore what within the lived experiences of exemplary oncology nurses facilitates the avoidance of compassion fatigue. A purposive sample of seven oncology nurses (RNs) who were identified by their colleagues as exemplary caregivers was recruited. Data were collected through semi-structured conversations that were subsequently transcribed. Transcr...

why does research evaluation matter?

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Why do ineffective treatments seem helpful? A brief review

After any therapy, when symptoms improve, healthcare providers (and patients) are tempted to award credit to treatment. Over time, a particular treatment can seem so undeniably helpful that scientific verification of efficacy is judged an inconvenient waste of time and resources. Unfortunately, practitioners' accumulated, day-to-day, informal impressions of diagnostic reliability and clinical e...

Why most interventions to improve physician prescribing do not seem to work.