Chapter 4- Lecture Flashcards
What three things are discussed when patient’s are diagnosed with a terminal diagnosis?
Belief in a higher power
Recognition of mortality
Self-actualization
What is self actualization?
The realization or fulfillment of one’s talents and potentialities
What is important to incorporate into medical training?
End-of-life issues
Is dying more than a medical problem to be solved
Yes, it is part of every individual, family and community. It is a cultural issue not medical
Is death a mystery?
Yes, we have to suffer with this knowledge
To reduce the “sting of death” we have to _______
Teach people how to live with meaning and die with meaning. Then people will not be afraid of it.
What do we need to make acceptable?
Death. Sometimes doctors can treat patients and sometimes they can only comfort.
If doctors don’t communicate with the patient’s well, then they have not ______
Come to grip with their own mortality and are not comfortable with dying.
What do patient’s have a right to do, in regards to death?
Die according to the rules they set.
Where does the fear come from?
Not preparing properly: pain management, care, meaningful experiences.
What are we lacking in spirituality?
Teachings of suffering control, not pain control.
We should all have a say in ________
our death, when we are well and it is not a threat.
