First published: July 12, 2022 Last edited: May 1, 2025 Disease, disability, sickness and illness. These are dangerous and difficult words used in many powerful ways: if you are considered disabled, you get disability benefits; if you are considered sick, you may get sickness benefits. A disease may make you eligible for a critical illness […]
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Thinking about prolonged disorders of consciousness Consciousness implies awareness: subjective, phenomenal experience of internal and external worlds. Consciousness also implies a sense of self, feelings, choice, control of voluntary behaviour, memory, thought, language, and (e.g. when we close our eyes or meditate) internally-generated images and geometric patterns. But what consciousness actually is remains unknown. Our
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First published: March 14, 2022 Last updated: November 15, 2025 Various reviews of ‘person-centred’ care reveal the wide range of interpretations of this attractive but deceptive phrase. A group in Auckland, New Zealand, have explored the concept and, between 2014 and 2024, published data-based papers setting out a strong description. This post was first published
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We can debate whether the patient is a part of the team (here), but we cannot debate that the patient is central to the team’s work, nor can we doubt that the team and the patient must work together. David Wozny has already written on this site (here) and now gives his experience of being
First published: February 6, 2022 The diagnosis and management of patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness is an area of expertise acquired by rehabilitation specialists starting in 1992 with the Bland case. There were few developments until 2010. Change accelerated, culminating in 2018 with a Supreme Court ruling that removed the requirement to involve the
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Tamar Makin, in 2021, prefaced her Essay with, “It has long been established that phantom limb pain is a real physiological condition. Why then do we tolerate mystery and myth when it comes to phantom limb pain treatment?” This statement always makes me ask, “What limb pain is not real?” Yet many patients and many
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