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T Forcht Dagi

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PubMed1991

Curriculum reform in death education: the modern resurrection of Ars Moriendi.

... The purpose of death education, therefore, must be to teach medical personnel how to assist their patients to achieve their private needs. Philosophically and religiously, the good death is purposeful and meaningful. It may or may not entail relief of suffering. Medically, the experience of death may be manipulated in a number of different directions. Whether sentience is worth preserving at the expense of pain, or vice versa, for example, is not the physician's decision: it is the patient's. One cannot guarantee that death will be easy for anyone: but because medical personnel must generally turn from the dying to attend to the living, thoughtful educational curricula can improve the lot of all three.

Attitude to Death↗
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Physicians and obligatory social activism.

This essay examines the claim that physicians have a special obligation to engage in social and political activism. Four ethical paradigms are considered. Two paradigms, the preventive medicine and the social medicine models, embody a limited professional obligation to advocate the priority of health in society; the justification for a more aggressive stance is limited by the failings of paternalism. The radical model and the heroic model speak to issues of personal virtue rather than professional obligation; they are not strictly comparable.

Conscience↗
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A new prospect on the approach to open, complex, craniofacial trauma.

Complex craniofacial trauma has been traditionally managed in three stages: urgent craniotomy, secondary orbitofacial repair and delayed cranioplasty. Departing from this conventional approach, we employ an early single-stage neuro and plastic-surgical reconstruction for patients presenting open cranial wounds of the frontobasilar region coexisting with orbitofacial fractures. Neurological outcome does not seem to be affected by the additional operating time, nor is the incidence of infection raised, although bone fragments are repositioned, primary bone grafting is employed, and metallic material is used for fixation. Adequate direct exposure followed by reduction and rigid internal fixation results in primary bone healing and permits to avoid the difficult complications related to soft tissue contracture over misaligned bone. Compared with the conventional staged approach, immediate reconstruction appears functionally and aesthetically preferable, as well as technically easier.

Accidents, Traffic↗