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Medical humanities: a Biella il convegno “Immagini nella cura. Cinema, fotografia e digital storytelling”

Il prossimo 17 e 18 novembre a Biella il secondo convegno biennale di Pensieri Circolari “Immagini nella cura. Cinema, fotografia e digital storytelling”. L’appuntamento, promosso dall’ASL di Biella, è dedicato allo studio e all’approfondimento delle pratiche di cura improntate sulle medical humanities Continua a leggere

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Medical students need to learn the potent medicine of empathy

A few years ago at a large teaching hospital in Texas, a medical resident asked a nurse how to order an autopsy for a patient they were currently treating. It was a reasonable request. Autopsies help further the understanding of disease. There was just one problem: their patient, who was very much alive, was lying nearby. He’d overhead the request, and that’s how he found out he was soon going to die. Continua a leggere