Deans' stroke musings: Toward a phenomenology of boundaries in medicine: Chronic illness experience in the case of stroke

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Toward a phenomenology of boundaries in medicine: Chronic illness experience in the case of stroke

The abstract does not tell us anything but your neurologist should have the full paper.

Phenomenological Theory. A theory that expresses mathematically the results of observed phenomena without paying detailed attention to their fundamental significance.^[1]
HUH!!!

http://www.naric.com/research/rehab/record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J61565&phrase=no&rec=116294
Author(s): Kaufman, Sharon R.
Publication Year: 2011.
Number of Pages: 12.
Abstract: Article explores the ambiguous nature of the boundaries of authority and responsibility associated with modern Western medicine by discussing two dimensions of patients’ response to long-term consequences of stroke, the conceptual frameworks of holism and medicalization. A phenomenological examination of the chronic illness experience is used to identify how and the extent to which medicine’s power both responds to and affects the individual sufferer. Rather than interpret the illness process as a dichotomy between medical control and patient autonomy, this article presents some assumptions about the boundaries of medical authority that are held by patients and practitioners alike. The author suggests that dilemmas that patients face following a stroke are responses to medicine’s limits and scope as well as reflections of medicine’s goals and values. She further argues that phenomenological studies of existential responses to illness are necessary in order to understand cultural sources of unmet expectations resulting from chronic conditions.
Descriptor Terms: CHRONIC ILLNESS, HOLISM, MEDICAL TREATMENT, PHILOSOPHY, REHABILITATION, STROKE