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We have reflected on the importance of communication and the art of interrelating in Medicine. My task now is to talk about the significance and value of reciprocity. It is our conviction that knowing how to communicate and to enter into a relationship with another – whether this person is a colleague, a health worker, a patient or his/her relatives – requires a step farther: to arrive at a reciprocal relationship.
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The connection between health and old age is complex and often influenced by myths and misconceptions. It is argued that old age is equivalent to a time of illness. Medicine itself has endorsed this idea, to such an extent that gerontology has even been defined as the science that traces the downward trends... LEGGI TUTTO
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A teenager’s trust in God’s plan while facing Crohn’s disease
When I was 14, I was a vivacious eighth grader who liked to play tennis and spend time with my friends. Then I began to feel very unlike my usual self. I had severe abdominal pain, was losing weight and experienced a huge decrease in energy. Countless doctor’s appointments and blood tests revealed nothing of relevance!Then one September day in my first year of high school, I was rushed to the ER with unbearable pain in my midsection.
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Children across the country and around the world learn the Gospel-based Art of Loving through the Cube of Love program. This is what we received from one of our readers.
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Dr. Evelyn Billings AM, 94, is an inspirational woman with a long list of achievements. Together with her husband of 64 years, the late Dr. John Billings, she pioneered the Billings Ovulation Method, which has been taught to women, couples, medical students and doctors since the 1950s in more than 100 countries — in fact, it is the only official natural method for fertility regulation in China and has been successfully tested by the World Health Organization. It also has the backing of the Catholic Church, given its natural methodology for regulating fertility.
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Communication and Relationships in Medicine.
New Perspectives for Medical "Etiquette"
Rome, February 16-17, 2008
Index
Preface (by Roberto Bernabei)
Address by the Holy Father
Address by the Italian Ministry of Health
Communication and Relationships in Medicine (by Chiara Lubich)
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Patients, if trust their doctors, are committed to them and this affects clinical outcomes. One thousand patients have been interviewed in family practice waiting rooms. 
Moving from the previous observation that patients show higher satisfaction scores if they usually visit the same doctor, a group of US physicians and business experts has investigated whether strength of patients’ commitment to their family physician was associated with adherence to prescriptions and healthy eating.
The report has been published in the January/February issue of the Annals of Family Medicine 1.
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Everyday medical practice, as takes place in the context of inter-personal relationships, has always kept an extra-scientific dimension. The physician’s way of doing is concurrently influenced on one side by this humanistic component and on the other side by the clinical reasoning, grounded on objective, statistically analysed observations and on their biochemical and pathophysiological interpretation. However, it is common opinion that in the last decades the former of these two aspects of medicine is quite vanishing, pushed away by the scientific and technical progress and by socio-economic constraints.
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The issue no. 9590 of The Lancet (September 9, 2007) contains several articles about mental health. As usual for the journal, a global perspective is given and social aspects of the problem are particularly addressed. S. Moussavi et al (1), analysing data from the World Health Survey of WHO, aimed at comparing the impairment in health state induced by depression with that due to four common chronic diseases: angina, arthritis, asthma, and diabetes.
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CONTENTS
Introduction
The dignity of the human person in the plan of God
Anna Fratta
Reflections on medical and Trinitarian anthropology
Flavia Caretta
The world of health today and the spirituality of unity
Flavia Caretta
The contents of the world of health and its expressions
Teresa Filippi
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Health today: an achievable balance
This volume, published by New Humanity in the Italian and English versions, contains the “Acts” of an international convention held on March 30 to April 1, 1991 at Castelgandolfo (Rome), consisting of dialogue and sharing of experiences and skills among participants from all over the world underlining a healthcare model based on reciprocity and brotherhood.
For Health Care Based on Communion – the Charism of Unity and Medicine
A collection of reflections presented during the meetings of doctors and healthcare workers promoted by the Focolare Movement; occasions for exchange of ideas and experiences of medical practice in the light of the Movement’s spirituality of unity.
The Introduction presents the spirituality and history of the Focolare Movement.
