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A spiritual response to the challenge of routinization : a dialogue of discourses in a Buddhist-initiated hospice
The hospice vision of providing democratic and humane care of the dying needs to be operationalized in the "real world" of health care bureaucracies. It is at this interface between idealists and the ...
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Simple techniques to relieve anxiety
Many patients can obtain rapid, short-term relief of anxiety through the use of simple, meditative techniques. Anxiety, tension, mild depressive feelings, and psychophysiologic symptoms frequently res...
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Death with dignity : significance of religious beliefs and practices in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam
1. Nurses can help individuals more readily deal with death and dying by examining cultural variations in death reactions and rituals. This helps to humanize care. 2. Caring for a dying client is a co...
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Enhancing Therapeutic Presence
After September 11, therapists were faced with having to support patients while maintaining presence and calm amidst the aftermath of the tragedy. The author looks to Buddhist practices aimed at settl...
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Loving kindness : the essential Buddhist contribution to primary care
Loving kindness (metta), a traditional Buddhist concept, implies acting with compassion toward all sentient beings, with an awareness and appreciation of the natural world. The giving of metta,...
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Burnout and the Buddha
A medical professional outlines the difficulties and burnout involved in the practice of dermatology. How can dermatologists, and, by extension, all medical professionals avoid burnout? The author loo...
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Hospice with a Zen twist : a talk with Zen hospice founder Frank Ostaseski. interview by Steve Heilig
Although housed in an anonymous Victorian house in San Francisco, California, the Zen Hospice Project (ZHP) is world renowned for its pioneering model of training hospice volunteers, providing direct ...
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The Tibetan Medical Tradition, and Tibetan Approaches to Healing in the Contemporary World
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