BMT...
Has been a hectic few weeks... almost getting used to waking up at 5.30 am in order to be able to start rounding at 6.15 am. Learning lots...
Funny how different people face challenges so differently. Have had quite a number of patients on the service who had the same disease, same conditioning regimen, same chemotherapy side effects, same complications and yet have such a different outcome... one stays in the hospital for 5 days and the other 15 days...
The emotional, psychological state is so important when facing a life-threatening diease. The right attitudes, approach, mental fortitude can often make a difference between recovery and illness...
The WHO defines health as...
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
.I must admit, as physicians we are often so focused on the physcical that we forget the mental, emotional and social aspects of health.
Interestingly even this definition under debate, in fact, there have been various attempts to modify, edit this definition. Found a paper recently by Sussela Bok a senior visiting fellow from the Harvard School of Public Health which discusses the historical context of the definition, as well the various efforts to 'update' this definition. Found it to be of a somewhat interesting read. Included here is the link to the PDF.
posted by antatosh @ 11:20 AM
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Hi, just drop in to say hello.
welcome to the hem/onc world.
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