Uncertainty, Decision-making And Team Work In High-tech Healthcare: Person-soulmindbody-hood & Relational Medicine (Original PDF from Publisher)

By Federica Raia, Mario C Deng, Murray Kwon
The Relational Medicine project is growing. In 2014 we published our practice framework “Relational Medicine — Personalizing Modern Healthcare: The Practice of High-Tech Medicine As A RelationalAct”. Building on this foundation, we now present a cutting-edge and fully developed single case recording analysis of consecutive encounter interactions in a dramatically accelerating life-and-death decision-making situation in the high-tech medical practice of Advanced Heart Failure during which practitioners, patient, and family face multiple uncertainties as the decision-making process unfolds and the patient’s condition deteriorates. We show how a multi-professional team including a cardiologist, cardiac surgeon, critical care unit nurse and fellows discuss life-prolonging options with their patient and family. We make visible the essential roles of each multi-disciplinary team member in helping frame for the patient and family what is going on and the changing options while attending to the patient’s PERSON-soul-mind-body-HOOD. In bringing different data, perspectives, and facets of understanding to bear, this book offers a novel approach to studying high-tech medical care grounded in Federica Raia’s Relational Ontology framework of understanding everyday practice. Using a micro-ethnographic data analysis and a participatory research strategy, we unravel a heretofore unrecognized universe of practice themes and present suggestions for medical education and training aimed at continuous practice improvement.

Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ WSPC (December 29, 2022)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 228 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9811254672
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9811254673