This chronic patient becomes a humanistic patient who helps clinicians

J Pain Symptom Manage. 2012 Nov;44(5):784-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.05.013. Epub 2012 Sep 24.

Abstract

A historian of aging, privileged to work with an interdisciplinary team of caregivers and researchers in a division of geriatric and palliative care of a major medical school and teaching hospital, discovers that his history of chronic illnesses secures him a useful role as a humanistic patient who helps clinicians to respond to the concerns, fears, and needs of aging Boomers.

Publication types

  • Autobiography
  • Biography
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Chronic Disease
  • Chronic Pain / psychology*
  • Chronic Pain / therapy
  • Geriatrics
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, 21st Century
  • Humanism*
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Palliative Care
  • Patient Care Team*
  • Spirituality

Personal name as subject

  • Andrew Achenbaum