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B McKay

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Empowerment in general practice. The trilogies of caring.

The authors examine the way in which the doctor-patient interaction often varies between an oppressive caring mode and an oppressed caring mode, both of which apply pressures to the participants and prevent good quality care. A model for the trilogy of oppressive, oppressed, and empowerment caring is examined and it is explained how the process of empowerment caring can enhance the general practitioners' quality of care and improve their practice, their home life and their personal wellbeing.

Adaptation, Psychological

Does non-clinical decompression stress lead to brain damage in abalone divers?

Abalone divers are subject to considerable decompression stresses and could be at risk of progressive cognitive impairment. A sample of abalone divers was compared with a sample of fishermen, by means of a battery of neuropsychological tests. No evidence of cognitive impairment was found in the divers, in spite of evidence of their exposure to decompression stress. The implications for other professional divers and for recreational underwater divers who follow standard decompression protocols are reassuring.

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