Published in History of psychiatry
Originally put forward to defend history from the encroachment of physics, the distinction between understanding and explanation was built into the foundations of Karl Jaspers' 'phenomenological' psychiatry, and it is revised, used and defended by many still working in that tradition. On the face of it, this is rather curious. I examine what this n...
Published in Frontiers in Endocrinology
Published in Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
To explore the value of using Karl Jaspers' lived experience concept of 'grasping' in remediating the reported dauntingness of formulation. Formulation can be construed as both the process and explication of understanding why a patient is presenting in a particular way. In an automatic process of abduction, 'feeling into' the mind of the other, hyp...
Published in The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres
Maternal tobacco smoking during pregnancy is associated with adverse health effects for the woman, fetus, and child, including such serious effects as preterm birth, low birth weight, stillbirth, and neonatal and sudden infant death. Smoking cessation during pregnancy reduces health risks. In order to support pregnant women to quit smoking, it is e...
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
We survey a current, heated debate in the artificial intelligence (AI) research community on whether large pretrained language models can be said to understand language-and the physical and social situations language encodes-in any humanlike sense. We describe arguments that have been made for and against such understanding and key questions for th...
Funder: National Institute for Health and Care Research / In order for patients to make autonomous decisions in a healthcare setting, they must understand relevant information. There is, however, a lack of consensus on how understanding should be defined or assessed in this context, despite the fact that in practice doctors are regularly required t...
Published in Internal medicine journal
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is internationally defined as chest compressions and rescue breaths, and is a subset of resuscitation. First used for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, CPR is now frequently used for in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) with different aetiology and outcomes. This paper aims to describe clinical understanding of the ro...
Published in Frontiers in Health Services
Background During the course of patients’ sickness, some become critically ill, and identifying them is the first important step to be able to manage the illness. During the course of care provision, health workers sometimes use the term ‘critical illness’ as a label when referring to their patient's condition, and the label is then used as a basis...
Published in European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe
Formative assessment with emphasis on feedback has been linked to developmental purposes of assessment, whilst summative assessment is assumed to focus on judgemental and quality assurance purposes. This dichotomy is questioned but designs to blend formative and summative assessments in constructive ways are rare in health care education. We have d...
In the business world, part of the success depends on there being a solid unders-tanding between the people who are part of the organization, since interpersonal commu-nication plays an important role in the achievement of goals and in the development of a climate and positive environment for performance. Communication, empathy and happiness are th...
