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M Sonn

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PubMed1979

Immersion and distance: two varieties of experience of psychiatric hospitalization.

In this paper we describe an inquiry into the experience of short-term hospitalization. Sixty-seven patients were interviewed shortly before discharge with the goal of obtaining a picture of their subjective impressions--satisfactions, criticisms, hopes for the future--growing out of their hospitalization. Two broad types of experiences were noted, which we label 'immersion' and 'distance'. We illustrate some of the clinical manifestations of these two divergent hospital experiences, discuss their relations to traditional diagnostic categories, and speculate on their implications for clinical management.

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PubMed1978

Optimism in the management of hip fracture in elderly patients.

The present generation of those past age 70 grew up with the idea that a fractured hip meant "the beginning of the end" for the elderly. The results reported here on the treatment of 50 consecutive patients over 70 years of age who had sustained a fractured hip indicate that in this situation the orthopedic surgeon can be an important partner in geriatric medicine. He can improve the functioning and health of this special group of elderly trauma victims through reassuring them that the fracture usually can be successfully treated without undue risk to life. The present improved state of the art of anesthesiology, surgery, and pre- and postoperative medical care makes the surgical risk tolerable, and helps to prevent many of the complications that used to occur in elderly patients confined to bed for long periods following hip fracture.

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