The Art of Holistic Care - Respect and encouragement
Abstract
He is called to the emergency room of a rural hospital late in the evening. The young woman with acute dyspnoea is already receiving treatment. He soon discovers that she had neither bronchospasm not cardiac failure. He pauses and thinks, 'What is going on?' After a while the patient starts talking about her suffocating situation at home. She is newly married, with a husband working away at the mines, She is living with the in-laws and having to share the husband's income with the whole family, including the five children from the sister-in-law who disappeared with a new husband.
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