I attended a conference last year which was entitled 'Patient-Physician 
Communication' except that patients/advocates were not permitted to 
attend. I attended anyway along with a nurse who also ignored 'the 
rules'. The focus of the seminar was to assist people to accept an 
untimely/early death. Tell that to a thirty year old with small 
children. Some people just need to get out into the real world.
Sandi


Dennis Raphael wrote:

>[This is why I stopped being a psychologist... dr]
>
>http://www.psychology.org.au/news/media_releases/10.1_148.asp
>
>Media Release, 9 March 2006
>Return to media release index
>
>Psychology is the key to healthier lifestyles
>Better use of Australia’s psychologists is the key solution to the need to
>promote healthier lifestyles, according to Dr Bob Montgomery, Director of
>Communications for the Australian Psychological Society. ‘If you are going
>to die prematurely,’ said Dr Montgomery, it is likely to be as a result of
>a lifestyle-caused illness.’
>
>"There is good international evidence that effective stress management and
>healthy lifestyle can reduce both the incidence and the costs associated
>with heart disease", said Dr Montgomery.‘Psychological interventions with
>patients with cardiac disease have been shown to reduce costs to about a
>quarter of that for conventional treatment.’
>
>‘Even more importantly, psychological strategies can impact significantly
>on risk factors such as obesity and smoking, which would even further
>reduce the burden on the health dollar of chronic disease.’
>
>The National Heart Foundation of Australia published a report in 2003 that
>confirmed that some of the major risk factors for cardiac disease are
>psychological in nature and a recent study by Duke University in the United
>States showed that psychological interventions with patients with cardiac
>disease reduced costs to a quarter of that for conventional treatment, and
>the incidence of additional cardiac events by 40 per cent.
>
>‘What and how much you eat and drink, whether or not you smoke or abuse
>other substances, how physically active you are, are all behaviours’ said
>Dr Montgomery, ‘ and that’s all pure psychology. If we want people to move
>to healthier lifestyles, to prevent illness, especially the growing number
>of chronic illnesses, we must address those psychological risk factors.’
>
>‘As many of our colleagues in other health professions will tell you, it’s
>easy but often futile to tell people what they should do to lead a
>healthier lifestyle. Certainly that’s the message coming from GPs, 80% of
>whose consultations are now for chronic illness. In fact, many people
>already have a reasonable idea about what they should be doing. The big
>problem is helping people to build and maintain motivation to stick to a
>healthy lifestyle. That is a psychological problem, too,’ said Dr
>Montgomery.
>
>‘No health professionals are better trained to help people do all of this
>than our psychologists.APS Psychologists are highly trained to provide
>primary interventions to protect against heart disease and other
>‘lifestyle’ illnesses. There is an urgent need for proper funding of such
>services to increase consumer access to the right sort of prevention and
>treatment,“ he stated.
>
>---- ends----
>
>Dr Montgomery is available for interview.
>
>For more information contact:
>
>Elaine Grant
>Communications Manager
>Australian Psychological Society
>03 8662 3363
>0412 683 068
>www.psychology.org.au
>

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