Health care workers' perceptions of patient suffering have not been well studied. Patients
and health care workers were invited to answer a single, open-ended question. To develop …

Purpose How accurately physicians perceive patient suffering remains unclear. The authors
sought to quantitatively compare physicians' estimates of their patients' suffering with the …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: To explore student perceptions of their medical school
teaching and learning about human suffering and to elicit student recommendations for …

Suffering is a complex and multidimensional experience that is individual in nature and
deeply personal. Effecting all aspects of being—physical, psychological/emotional …

Background: The relief of suffering is a fundamental goal of medicine, but what medical
students are taught about suffering has been largely unexplored. Objective: This pilot study …

It has been well documented that nurses do not effectively manage pain and several factors
have been identified that contribute to this outcome. Because pain and suffering often …

Objective Our study examined the effect of health care workers' personal characteristics on
how they perceive and intend to treat patients' pain in the intensive care unit. Though pain …

Abstract Purpose: This paper explores:(1) the relationship of pain complaints and
psychological distress among orthopedic, dermatology, ophthalmology, and neurology …

Although my entire career has been spent in Patient Experience, nothing I have learned
from data, evidence-based practice, or experience-based correlations, has been near as …

Physicians routinely care for dying patients, yet many report being uncomfortable doing so.
Discomfort with death can compromise patient care through insensitive or inadequate …