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Hospital Roommates: An Interview with a Terminally III Patient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Robert M. Veatch  and
Laurelyn L. Veatch
Robert M. Veatch
Affiliation:
Director of the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Laurelyn L. Veatch
Affiliation:
President of Computer-Human Inter Action of Hawaii, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii
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Extract

Among the important functions of the healthcare provider in providing quality care is the monitoring of the social environment of the patient. Although it is increasingly recognized that caring activity must include the whole patient and not merely the technical and pharmacological aspects of the patient's needs, the impact of the social environment upon the total health state (which includes physical, emotional, and social components) has not been explored and debated to the extent that It might be.

Type
Special Section: Healthcare Relationships: Ties that Bind
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , Winter 1994 , pp. 71 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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