Understanding Physician’s Experience With Conversational Interfaces During Occupational Health Consultation

Understanding multimodal deixis with gaze and gesture in conversational interfaces

Occupational health physicians and tribunals.

Kloss makes a number of key observations about the role of occupational health (OH) practitioners in relation to tribunal cases [1]. She states the importance of tribunals understanding the expertise of those in OH, but then describes a doctor with an Associate of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine as a 'specialist'. An understandable error, but it does emphasize the difficulties non-medical ...

An Integrated Occupational Health Consultation Model

In this research, we designed a three-stage consultation procedure and eight major consultation items in order to construct an integrated occupational health consultation model that emphasizes both inspection and consultation. The main characteristics of the proposed model include cooperation among governmental departments, combining non-governmental professional consulting organizations, and e...

The heartsink consultation in occupational health practice.

Editorial the heartsink consultation in occupational health practice The term 'heartsink patient' was first used by O'Dowd in 1988 to describe patients who engender a feeling of intense dysphoria in doctors. Terms used to describe that dysphoria include 'exasperate', 'overwhelm', 'anger', 'inadequacy' and 'frustration'. While these patients present with a range of diagnoses and socio-demographi...

Patients Emotions during Meal Experience: Understanding through Critical Incident Technique

Background and Objectives: It was established that eating experience may affect patients emotionally. Acknowledging the role and understanding the basis of patients’ emotions in their food consumption may assist in identifying their nutritional status as well as their satisfaction with foodservice. To date, there are limited studies focusing on patients’ food-related emotional ...