Tips for Patients
It is possible that you or one of your friends is a victim of disease that is seriously and immediately life-threatening, and the causes of which present-day medicine may not be able to cure.
Perhaps you are just afraid that the disease that has been diagnosed, for instance if it is tumorous, is a member of this group while its curability may already be on an excellent level.
We would like to support you with at least a few tips and pieces of information which can help you preserve your quality of life in this difficult life period. Even if medicine is not able to cure or stop your illness, it can almost always bring radical relief to your suffering. We can offer you the experience of health workers and many patients with a similar disease concerning the procedures and approaches that worked for them in a situation close to yours.
The profession that takes care of this issue is called palliative – consolatory – medicine. Characteristic to it are approaches that improve the quality of life of the ill and their families if they are faced with difficulties related to a life-threatening sickness. It puts emphasis on prevention and relief of suffering through early recognition, acute evaluation and precise treatment of pain and other physical, psychosocial or spiritual problems.
In the following references we offer reading Tips for Patients that will make dealing with the situation in which you have found yourself easier. The text about pain contains basic information about the causes of pain and the methods of dealing with it.
- Communicate with people around you
- Learn to communicate with health workers
- Be active
- Coping with pain
- Coping with physical difficulties
- Coping with psychological difficulties
- Good departure
"Our malicious sister pain hurts more when we face her alone. She is weaker when we can share our suffering with someone else. Thus we must not try to bear and stand everything alone no matter the cost."
MUDr. Marie Goldmannová
