Class R - Medicine
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R31.M159.1 -Scientific Article Abstracts; Ephemeral Validity
M.J. McKeown, MD, FACOG, FACS
- There are many interesting definitions of what an abstract is.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/abstracts.html
Link added 2006-05-21;
Dioscorides and Tibetan Medicine
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- R126.D182.1 - De Materia Medica
Pedanius Dioscorides - Tess Anne Osbaldeston, translator and editor
- Pedanius Dioscorides, probably lived between 40CE and 90CE in the time of the Roman Emperors Nero and Vespasian. A learned physician, he practiced medicine as an army doctor, and saw service with the Roman legions in Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, and Provence in modern-day France. His military years provided opportunities for studying diseases, collecting and identifying medicinal plants, and discovering other healing materials.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/dioscorides.html
Link added 2006-04-26; reviewed 2008-05-22
- R603.T5.B35.1 - What does Tibetan Medicine have to offer?
Brian Boni, MD, MPH
- Tibetan medicine is an eminently holistic healing system, utilizing psycho-spiritual methods as much as physical. The human body is considered to be based on the five cosmic energies
http://www.cancerlynx.com/tibetan.html
Link added 2007-01-15
R723-724 - Medical philosophy; Medical ethics; Life and Death Instructions
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- R723.M159.1 - Knowledge Is Me: Medicine And The Internet
M.J. McKeown, MD, FACOG, FACS
- The license to practice medicine or an allied health profession carries with it the great responsibility of keeping up with knowledge advances. The Internet provides an incredible source of continuing new medical care information.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/doctorinternet.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R724.R68.1 - Life and Death Instructions - Planning for The End
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD; Isadora R Rosenbaum, MA; Debra Marks, PhD;
Sabrina Selim, MD; Thomas Addison, MD; Joanna Beam, JD; Meryl Brod,
PhD; David Claman, MD; Alan J. Coleman, MD; Malin Dollinger, MD;
Michael Glover; Nancy Lambert, RN, BSN; Almo Petterle; Patricia
Sparacino, RN, MS, Jeffrey Silberman, Dmin; Kenneth A Woeber, MD
- Death is a part of life. We all know that we must
die sometime: we just don't know when. Despite this reality, we often
think of death as something that happens to other people. Most of us
have a difficult time accepting our own mortality
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/end.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R724.R68.2 - Choosing Life: Living Your Life While Planning for Death
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD; Isadora R Rosenbaum, MA; Debra Marks, PhD;
Sabrina Selim, MD; Thomas Addison, MD; Joanna Beam, JD; Meryl Brod,
PhD; David Claman, MD; Alan J. Coleman, MD; Malin Dollinger, MD;
Michael Glover; Nancy Lambert, RN, BSN; Almo Petterle; Patricia
Sparacino, RN, MS, Jeffrey Silberman, Dmin; Kenneth A Woeber, MD
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Despite the inevitability of death and the importance of planning for
tomorrow, the purpose of life is to live. The diagnosis of an acute or
chronic illness doesn't need to be experienced as an automatic death
sentence; it can be viewed as an important reminder to live each day as
if it were the last.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/plan.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R724.R68.3 - Compassionate End-of-Life Care - How to Approach and Prevent Suffering
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
- Each person wants to live as long as possible and with as much comfort and enjoyment as feasible. This becomes more significant when a person is gravely ill or enters into an end-of-life process.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/endcare.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R724.R68.4 - A Good Goal - Quality of Life
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
- Try to make an assessment of your life. Take care of yourself with the aid of the medical team, the social team of nurses, medical social workers, hospice, family members and friends. It's important to keep hope as alive as possible, even under grave circumstances.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/goal.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R724.R68.3 - Compassionate End-of-Life Care - How to Approach and Prevent Suffering
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
- Each person wants to live as long as possible and with as much comfort and enjoyment as feasible. This becomes more significant when a person is gravely ill or enters into an end-of-life process.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/endcare.html
Link added 2006-03-06; reviewed 2006-08-22reviewed 2008-09-17
- R724.R68.4 - A Good Goal - Quality of Life
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
- Try to make an assessment of your life. Take care of yourself with the aid of the medical team, the social team of nurses, medical social workers, hospice, family members and friends. It's important to keep hope as alive as possible, even under grave circumstances.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/goal.html
Link added 2008-09-17
- R724.R68.5 - Choices - Death and Dying
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
- Death has always had a sacred place in life. Death becomes not only a moment in time but at the end of life it has a relationship with all around. Anger and forgiveness need to be addressed. Knowledge is important, helping in controlling physical and mental symptoms.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/death.html
Link added 2008-09-17
- R724.R68.6 - A Search For Something Better For The Dying Process
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD and Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA
- Death is like an earthquake: you know it's coming, but you don't know where or when. It makes all equal in the end. It is a democratic process. You know you should prepare for it. Includes medical emergency card and information.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/endqol.html
Link added 2008-09-17
- R724.R68.7 - End of Life Dignity Care
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
- Medical care should promote dignity in end-of-life for a good death. Optimal supportive care to control symptoms such as pain and psychological distress and suffering with both medical and spiritual support, frees patients, families and caregivers during the dying process.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/dignity.html
Link added 2008-09-17
- R724.R68.8 - Supportive Care For the End Of Life
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
- At the end of life, patients, families and doctors are dealing with the difficult problems concerning medical treatments. The use of Advanced Directives is a partial tool to help direct the most optimal medical care for best quality of life in the dying phase.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/endsupport.html
Link added 2008-09-17
- R724.R68.9 - POLST - A Potential Better Way to Ensure End-of-Life Care through Improved Medical Orders
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
- Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments (POLST), better conveys a dying patients wishes for all health care problems. This bright pink form signed by a physician, nurse or physician's assistant asks patients about preferences for CPR, antibiotics, artificially administered nutrition and general medical interventions. It is not designated for the healthy but for those with advanced, chronic illnesses, and it is actually a medical order.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/polst.html
Link added 2008-09-17
- R724.R68.10 - Dealing With Death If Cancer Becomes Terminal
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD and Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA
- Death is never easy to accept. We do not accept our mortality until a crisis forces us to contemplate non being. Life is elusive and precious. It may be snuffed out in a moment or drain away slowly with disease or old age. There is concern over maintaining dignity in life and in dying. Saying goodbye before death can be a comfort to everyone concerned - family, friends, and patient.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/terminal.html
Link added 2008-10-22;
R726 - Hospice Care
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- R726.8.B124.1 - Hospice Care
Lana Bakk
- Making a choice for Hospice care is not about dying - it is about living each day to its fullest
http://www.cancerlynx.com/hospice.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R726.8.B124.2 - Lana Bakk - List of Things To Do
Lana Bakk's
- Here are some things I am working on right now for my peace of mind and tangible evidence of love
http://www.cancerlynx.com/bakk.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R726.8.C203.1 - Ending Days
Sandy Caverly
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Ending Days - I am already registered to go to palliative care at my hospital when my time comes
http://www.cancerlynx.com/ending.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R726.8.H343.1 - Hospice Care
Irene Harrison, LCSW
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The hospice philosophy embraces a holistic approach
that encompasses physical, emotional and spiritual concerns. The
patient and family are seen as the unit of care.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/hospice.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R726.8.K291.1 - How To Care For Your Terminally Ill Loved One
Lorraine Kember
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Experience has taught me that knowledge is the key to better quality of life for the terminally ill. Patients and carer should be encouraged to talk to their doctors about the progressive symptoms of their disease, so that informed choices can be made regarding available treatment and medications.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/kember.html
Link added 2006-06-27; reviewed 2008-09-17
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R726.8.J61.1 Planning for the End
Doreen Jaskela
- With mets, one has to believe the end is coming. It is an unknown place and we have to feel our way along the path.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/end.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
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R726.8.P117.1 Things That Must Be Discussed
Karolen I. Paularena
- Not everyone does want to talk about death or after death issues beforehand, do they? But, in answer to the question about what we think MUST be discussed, here are my thoughts
http://www.cancerlynx.com/must.html
Link added 2006-04-20; reviewed 2008-09-17
R727 - Medical Care Issues
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- R727.A152.1 - Silly Examining Gowns
Melanie Aguillard, Alexandra Andrews, Merry Holley, Sheila Werner, Ruth Wolf
- I have always taken offense to those silly examinining gowns. So much to endure already, can we not be left a small measure of dignity?! They act like we are on exhibit andI for one get tired of it.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/gowns.html
Link added 2006-03-05; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R727.B247.1 - Should You Just Say No to Drugs?
William M. Buchholz, MD
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When your doctor suggests taking medicine for a problem, do you think first of the side effects that drug may cause. While that may be a valid concern, the real question is more complex. The next time you consider taking ANY medicine, vitamin or supplement, consider the following questions.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/nodrugs.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R727.C53.1 - More Silly Examinining Gowns
Deborah Collyar, Susan Durst, Tricia Hawn, Doreen Jaskela, Susan Kling, Claudia Kruggel, M.J. McKeown, MD, Joanne Millstone, Jean Reichenbach, Matthew Bieber Schooley, Barbara B. Sharpe, Diane Wildbur
- From a professional stand point, I think preserving the dignity of the patient has been put low on the list of priorities. After reading this site, I was vividly reminded of how quickly a patient may feel stripped of their dignity and self-respect.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/moregowns.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R727.C129.1 - Waiting ... Cancer Test Results
Linda Cordisco, Linda Ryan, Paula Pollock
- The night before the bone scan - dreading the drive to the hospital ... the day of getting the test results - dreading the drive to the hospital
http://www.cancerlynx.com/test.html
Link added 2009-01-06;
- R727.M159.1 - Your Doctor Is A Person Too
M.J. McKeown, MD, FACOG, FACS
- The professional, to appear professional, must maintain a demeanor that implies the situation is well controlled and the solution will work. The need to maintain a reassuring manner in the face of adversity requires a good deal of ego energy. This can lead to a defensive posture and an apparent irritation when a judgment is questioned.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/doctorperson.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R727.M159.2 Your Patient Is A Person Too
M.J. McKeown, MD, FACOG, FACS
- The basic principle is simple. The patient is a person not a diagnosis. You are a professional, you have spent years in training how to diagnose and treat some very bad diseases, you keep up with the very latest knowledge in your field but no one ever included a course in how to be gentle with, be empathetic with and to communicate with your patients.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/patientperson.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
- R727.M159.3 Talking To A Stone
M.J. McKeown, MD, FACOG, FACS
- This figure, this person, this dispenser of life and death is in control of your life - your physician.You are ill and truly in the fight for your life...and just the job of getting up each morning are events of mountainous dimensions.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/stone.html
Link added 2008-11-16; reviewed 2010-08-07
- R727.R116.1 - Why Doctors Don't Listen
Karen Ritchie, MD
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Science has won and the art of medicine has lost, or at least it has run out of money. Listen to the patient. He is telling you the diagnosis.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/doctorlisten.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2006-11-17
R729 - Patient Safety
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- R729.8.N464.1 - What You Don't Know Can Kill You
Laura Nathanson, MD, FAAP
- Dr. Nathanson provides a guide to getting the best medical care and navigating our frustrating and often impenetrable health care system. Includes - Flag any signs of misdiagnosis and misleading analysis of symptoms, Prevent miscommunication among specialists from having dire consequences, Stay safe in the hospital and bypass its dangers, Choose a health care plan without falling into the uncovered services trap.
http://lauranathansonmd.com
Link added 2008-11-17;
R730 - Medical Charlatans and Quackery
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- R730.G230.1 - A Primer on Spotting Cancer Treatment Scams
Teresa Tarnowski Goodell, RN, CNS, CS
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Many people with cancer seek out alternative or complementary therapies in their quest for more effective, less toxic methods of cancer treatment. These treatments range widely in their intended purposes, effectiveness, costs, and side effects.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/spotscam.html
Link added 2008-11-16;
R853 - Clinical Trials
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R853.C55.A5.1 - Questions to Ask Before Signing Up For A Clinical Trial
(from the Patient's Viewpoint)
Alexandra Andrews, Jim Carlson, Nancy Chinn (Rasa Lila), Karen Gann, Bill Hodnett, Karolen I. Paularena, Linda Trenholm, Mike Wickson
- What is your feeling about this trial? Are you excited about it...Have there been any fatalities ...It is hard to understand how they can consider it an informed consent if they don't give you information.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/questions.html
Link added 2008-11-21;
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R853.C55.C53.1 - Cancer? Now What? Why Consider Clinical Trials?
Deborah Collyar
- Clinical trial may sound a bit intimidating, but it is simply a research study that carefully tests new ways to prevent, diagnose, or treat different cancers. These studies give critical information to preserve our health for both early and advanced cancer because there is still so much that isn't known about how cancer begins or develops
http://www.cancerlynx.com/clinical_trials.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
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R853.C55.D183.1 - Clinical Trials Are Needed
Peggy Devine
- All new drugs can have problems - so all clinical trials carry risks - but cancer trials are the most dangerous at this point in time because we are still really only testing cytotoxic drugs which by definition kill cells.
http://www.cancerlynx.com/needtrials.html
Link added 2006-05-21; reviewed 2008-09-17
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R853.C55.M159.1 - Evaluation Of Randomised Controlled Trials
- Checklist For Appraising Randomized Trials. Objective and Ethics, Outcome Measures,Interventions, Study Population And Sample Size,
http://www.cancerlynx.com/trialcheck.html
Link added 2009-01-06;
R864 - Portable Health Records
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- R864.D471.1 - A Personal Portable Health Record
J. Ben Davoren, MD, PhD
- Encourage your providers of healthcare to give you copies of your information. The future of computer personal health information storage on the Internet is approaching, but starting your own electronic collection now can help you and your future healthcare providers plan the best care for you.
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/Survivor/electronic.html
Link added 2008-09-15;
- R864.R68.1 - Medical Emergency Information - A Simple Card (Text version)
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
- A Medical Emergency Information Simple Card to carry in your wallet. Legacy of Love: End-of-Life Form
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/emergencycard.txt
Link added 2008-09-17;
- R864.R68.2 - Medical Emergency Information - A Simple Card (PDF version)
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
- A Medical Emergency Information Simple Card to carry in your wallet. Legacy of Love: End-of-Life Form
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/emergencycard.pdf
Link added 2008-09-17; reviewed 2010-08-07
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