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Predicting Future Years Of Healthy Life For Older Adults, Paula Diehr
Predicting Future Years Of Healthy Life For Older Adults, Paula Diehr
Paula Diehr
Cost-effectiveness studies often need to compare the cost of a program to the lifetime benefits of the program, but estimates of lifetime benefits are not routinely available, especially for older adults. We used data from two large longitudinal studies of older adults (ages 65-100) to estimate transition probabilities from one health state to another, and used those probabilities to estimate the mean additional years of healthy life that an older adult of specified age, sex, and health status would experience. We found, for example, that 65-year-old women in excellent health can expect 16.8 years of healthy life in the future, …
Medical Students Development Of Empathic Understanding Of Their Patients, William T. Branch Jr. Md, Macp
Medical Students Development Of Empathic Understanding Of Their Patients, William T. Branch Jr. Md, Macp
William T.Branch Jr.MD
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Professional And Moral Development In Medical Students: The Ethics Of Caring For Patients, William T. Branch Jr. Md, Macp
Professional And Moral Development In Medical Students: The Ethics Of Caring For Patients, William T. Branch Jr. Md, Macp
William T.Branch Jr.MD
The young physician-in-training faces arduous tasks. Knowledge must be absorbed, and skills must be mastered. But, becoming a physician is a moral as well as an intellectual task. The attitudes and values that a young physician adopts will determine the way he or she practices, and be equally as important as intellectual and technical proficiency. Physicians-in-training are young adults. They have emerged from adolescence into adulthood, hopefully with a firm image of themselves and a self-awareness of their values and inner feelings.