Compassion is central to the purpose of medicine and the care of patients and their families. Compassionate healthcare begins with compassionate people, but cannot be consistently provided without systemic changes that enable clinicians and staff to collaborate and to care. We propose seven essential commitments to foster more compassionate healthcare organizations and systems: a commitment to ...

BACKGROUND Most research on the impact of mind-body training does not ask about participants' baseline experience, expectations, or preferences for training. To better plan participant-centered mind-body intervention trials for nurses to reduce occupational stress, such descriptive information would be valuable. METHODS We conducted an anonymous email survey between April and June, 2010 of No...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore the lived experience and the associated meaning of approaching death among older adults with advanced cancer. RESEARCH APPROACH A phenomenologic inquiry. SETTING Urban cancer center. PARTICIPANTS 5 individuals diagnosed with advanced cancer who were 65 years or older. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH A series of semistructured interviews were tape-recorded, transcribe...

India’s economic growth story of the past two decades has a recurrent theme, accentuating insecurities for millions. Yet, there is deep divide over how to distribute fruits its growth. How best plough back gains achieve equality and social protection everyone? Despite status as middle-income country, close 350 million people live in absolute poverty. According an affidavit presented Supreme Cou...

The 2015 publication of Nick Sousanis’s graphic dissertation, Unflattening, opened doors for artist-scholars who challenge conventional research methodologies by producing dissertations, research, and comics-based publications in academic, scientific, medical journals. Unflattening came out one year after I began a PhD program cultural studies at the University California, Davis, with proposed ...

Research suggests that being self-compassionate can have myriad benefits, including life satisfaction, health-promoting behaviours and improved mental health. Given the possible advantages of being self-compassionate, it seems critical to explore how to promote this in the general population. This qualitative study aimed to understand responses to the idea of being compassionate to oneself with...