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Doctors As Mothers, Sandhya Chauhan
Doctors As Mothers, Sandhya Chauhan
Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine
As a young Pediatric Consultant as well as a mother, I tried to juggle my time between my profession and motherhood, alone, single handed, until one day my circumstances told me I was not doing enough.
Safe And Effective Prescribing With Dyslexia: A Collaborative Autoethnography, Sebastian C. K. Shaw, Michael Okorie, John L. Anderson
Safe And Effective Prescribing With Dyslexia: A Collaborative Autoethnography, Sebastian C. K. Shaw, Michael Okorie, John L. Anderson
The Qualitative Report
Prescribing medicines is the most common patient-level intervention made by doctors in the United Kingdom. However, this is associated with a potential for harm. Whilst dyslexia can bring many strengths, it also impacts reading and writing abilities and therefore has the potential to contribute to errors in the prescribing process if dyslexic doctors are unsupported. This paper explores the experiences of Seb – regarding prescribing and prescribing education – as a dyslexic medical student and doctor. We hope that this might spark more research on this overlooked issue. This is a collaborative, analytic, autoethnographic study within an interpretivist paradigm. Firstly, …
The Factors Urban African American Men Perceive As Preventing Early Prostate Cancer Screening, Joel Mongo
The Factors Urban African American Men Perceive As Preventing Early Prostate Cancer Screening, Joel Mongo
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Prostatic carcinoma, or prostate cancer, is the leading cause of death among adult males in the United States. The highest rate of prostate cancer is found in males of African American ethnicity, as males within this cohort are 50% more likely to develop prostate cancer than other ethnicities. African Americans men are 1.6 times more likely to develop prostate cancer and 2.4 times more likely to die from it than Caucasians. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the perceptions of urban African American men about factors that prevent them from seeking and receiving prostate cancer screening, and …