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"We feel alone and not listened to": Somali, Hmong and Latin American Parents Perspectives on Pediatric Serious Illness [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Results: Parents desired two-way trusting and respectful relationships with medical staff. Effective communication is one key to improving understanding, expressing compassion, and partnering with parents, including quality medical interpretation for low-English proficient parents. Intervention: NA. Outcome Measures: NA.

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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

In this blog, we’re going to outline four key ways temporary medical staff such as locum tenens providers can help healthcare facilities maintain continuity of high-quality patient care in the face of growing shortages. Enter temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens providers. Many healthcare facilities in the U.S.

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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

My theory is that the behavioral health staff members felt isolated and not integrated with the primary care providers. This is not Orwellian Newspeak; our words can heal, and they can hurt. These are some examples of conventional doctorspeak and suggested alternatives from the video presentation we watched by Alexander Blount, Ed.

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

Religion is important to me and my relationship with God has got stronger since I’ve been working here. They can go in and out the rooms and interact with the inmates because the inmates a lot of them have a mistrust of medical staff and authority that’s been long ingrained in concrete for so long.

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