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The Journal of Adolescent Health :... Oct 2018This study aimed to examine the relation between chosen name use, as a proxy for youths' gender affirmation in various contexts, and mental health among transgender...
PURPOSE
This study aimed to examine the relation between chosen name use, as a proxy for youths' gender affirmation in various contexts, and mental health among transgender youth.
METHODS
Data come from a community cohort sample of 129 transgender and gender nonconforming youth from three U.S. cities. We assessed chosen name use across multiple contexts and examined its association with depression, suicidal ideation, and suicidal behavior.
RESULTS
After adjusting for personal characteristics and social support, chosen name use in more contexts was associated with lower depression, suicidal ideation, and suicidal behavior. Depression, suicidal ideation, and suicidal behavior were lowest when chosen names could be used in all four contexts.
CONCLUSION
For transgender youth who choose a name different from the one given at birth, use of their chosen name in multiple contexts affirms their gender identity and reduces mental health risks known to be high in this group.
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Cohort Studies; Depression; Female; Humans; Male; Risk Factors; Social Support; Suicidal Ideation; Transgender Persons; Young Adult
PubMed: 29609917
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.02.003 -
Cancer Treatment and Research... 2022Eponyms have been traditionally used in the field of medicine to honor the contributions of an individual or group of individuals in understanding a disease. However,... (Review)
Review
Eponyms have been traditionally used in the field of medicine to honor the contributions of an individual or group of individuals in understanding a disease. However, many eponyms have come under scrutiny given the personal backgrounds of individuals for whom they intend to honor. As we previously reviewed commonly used eponyms in medical oncology, we now aim to review commonly used eponyms in malignant hematology in order to highlight the individuals for whom they are named after. In this review, we discuss the pathophysiology of each disease, epidemiology, and the historical background for the individual or individuals for which the eponym honors.
Topics: Eponyms; Hematology; Humans
PubMed: 35835706
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctarc.2022.100594 -
The Western Journal of Medicine Nov 1998A patient's unique, personal name is fundamental in medical relationships. Sometimes, patients may use false names, which obscure family, ethnic, sexual, or billing...
A patient's unique, personal name is fundamental in medical relationships. Sometimes, patients may use false names, which obscure family, ethnic, sexual, or billing identities. The means and motivations involved--fraud, concealment, gaining financial or personal advantage, gratifying a psychic need, or changing group assignment--produce a variety of distinct clinical manifestations of false name use. These may be classified as alias, pseudonym, manipulator, fraud, psychotic, amnestic, medical factitioner, and renamed. The identification of falsely named patients enables clinicians to improve care for these types of patients. Individual cases are briefly described and a discussion of naming in society and medicine follows. This preliminary discussion may serve to fuel further refinement.
Topics: Adult; Amnesia; Continuity of Patient Care; Factitious Disorders; Female; Fraud; Humans; Insurance, Health; Male; Medical Records; Middle Aged; Names; Patients; Psychotic Disorders; Transsexualism
PubMed: 9830369
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Psychosomatic Medicine Jan 2009
Topics: Attitude of Health Personnel; Behavioral Medicine; Data Collection; Diagnostic Errors; Factitious Disorders; Medicine; Names; Periodicals as Topic; Physicians; Psychophysiologic Disorders; Psychophysiology; Psychosomatic Medicine; Somatoform Disorders; Specialization; United States
PubMed: 19124618
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181954848 -
BMC Nephrology Apr 2019Natalina Tomilina, a pioneer of Russian nephrology, is a clinician, researcher, teacher, organizer, leader, and a real pioneer, who has worked in nephrology from the...
Natalina Tomilina, a pioneer of Russian nephrology, is a clinician, researcher, teacher, organizer, leader, and a real pioneer, who has worked in nephrology from the very beginning of its development in Russia and continues to inspire new generations of Russian nephrologists. Her interests are very broad: from the physiology and pathophysiology of water and electrolyte balance and tubular dysfunctions to the management of transplant rejection, and from nephropathology to the treatment of idiopathic glomerulonephritis and ANCA-associated vasculitis…. to name a few. She implemented peritoneal dialysis, started first ICU for kidney patients in Russia, opened the door for the international communications, initiated a registry of the patients receiving RRT, and she never stopped seeing patients with kidney problems. In the interview on can find not only the story of her professional life, but also standpoint and philosophy of a great personality. Answering the question about emigration she said: "I never wanted to leave - I have to work at home, where I know and understand almost everything about my patients. Don't talk about prosperity, prosperous life sooner or later becomes boring. Prosperity is not the main point, and this is not prosperity, what gives you satisfaction. I feel that one should live in the place where he or she has an opportunity for personal fulfillment ad maximum". Her personal fulfillment is 100 % indeed.
Topics: Empowerment; Humans; Leadership; Nephrology; Physicians, Women; Russia
PubMed: 30935367
DOI: 10.1186/s12882-019-1303-4 -
Clinical Medicine & Research Aug 2020Percussion and auscultation are derived from the Latin words to touch and hear, respectively. Covered are abdominal percussion signs and ausculatory signs discovered... (Review)
Review
BACKGROUND
Percussion and auscultation are derived from the Latin words to touch and hear, respectively. Covered are abdominal percussion signs and ausculatory signs discovered from 1924 to 1980. Signs ascribed as medical eponyms pay homage to these physicians who provided new and unique insights into disease.
DATA SOURCES
PubMed, Medline, online Internet word searches, textbooks, and references from other source text. PubMed was searched using the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) of the name of the eponyms and text words associated with the sign.
CONCLUSION
Many of these signs have been discarded because of modern imaging and diagnostic techniques. When combined with a high clinical suspicion, positive results using percussion combined with palpation is a useful bedside technique in detecting splenic enlargement. Thus, some of these maneuvers remain important bedside techniques that skilled practitioners should master, and along with a meaningful history, provide relevant information to diagnosis. It is through learning about these signs that we gain a sense of humility on the difficulty physicians faced prior to the advent of techniques that now allow us an easier way to visualize and diagnose the underlying disease processes.
Topics: Eponyms; History, 20th Century; Humans; Palpation; Percussion; Physicians
PubMed: 31324737
DOI: 10.3121/cmr.2018.1429 -
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews Dec 2017The use of proper names enables us to designate entities, including people, at a very specific level of categorization: the unique entity or the individual. The paper... (Review)
Review
The use of proper names enables us to designate entities, including people, at a very specific level of categorization: the unique entity or the individual. The paper presents a general overview of psychological/cognitive and neuroscientific studies that have compared the production of proper names, in particular people's names, with the production of common nouns during the last thirty years. The search for specific brain correlates of proper naming included single-case and group studies of patients with brain lesions, and studies utilizing functional neuroimaging or brain electrical stimulation with healthy participants. These studies have led neuroscientists to hypothesize that the recall of proper names involves a rather complex network including mainly left frontal and temporal regions. Behavioural evidence supports the view that proper names are more difficult to recall than common names, and scientists have proposed different explanations for this relative difficulty. Finally, several new directions for future research are proposed to improve our understanding of both cognitive processes and their brain correlates involved during proper name recall.
Topics: Brain; Cognition; Humans; Linguistics; Names; Neurosciences; Psychology
PubMed: 29038031
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.10.008 -
Journal of General Internal Medicine Jan 2013
Topics: Humans; Interprofessional Relations; Medical Staff, Hospital; Names; Personnel, Hospital; Terminology as Topic
PubMed: 22722976
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-012-2125-2 -
Clinical & Experimental Optometry Sep 2018
Topics: Australia; Awards and Prizes; Biomedical Research; Eponyms; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Humans; Optometrists; Optometry; Parent-Child Relations; Societies, Medical
PubMed: 30153706
DOI: 10.1111/cxo.12816 -
Journal of the American Medical... 2014To understand the factors that influence success in scrubbing personal names from narrative text. (Comparative Study)
Comparative Study
OBJECTIVE
To understand the factors that influence success in scrubbing personal names from narrative text.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
We developed a scrubber, the NLM Name Scrubber (NLM-NS), to redact personal names from narrative clinical reports, hand tagged words in a set of gold standard narrative reports as personal names or not, and measured the scrubbing success of NLM-NS and that of four other scrubbing/name recognition tools (MIST, MITdeid, LingPipe, and ANNIE/GATE) against the gold standard reports. We ran three comparisons which used increasingly larger name lists.
RESULTS
The test reports contained more than 1 million words, of which 2388 were patient and 20,160 were provider name tokens. NLM-NS failed to scrub only 2 of the 2388 instances of patient name tokens. Its sensitivity was 0.999 on both patient and provider name tokens and missed fewer instances of patient name tokens in all comparisons with other scrubbers. MIST produced the best all token specificity and F-measure for name instances in our most relevant study (study 2), with values of 0.997 and 0.938, respectively. In that same comparison, NLM-NS was second best, with values of 0.986 and 0.748, respectively, and MITdeid was a close third, with values of 0.985 and 0.796 respectively. With the addition of the Clinical Center name list to their native name lists, Ling Pipe, MITdeid, MIST, and ANNIE/GATE all improved substantially. MITdeid and Ling Pipe gained the most--reaching patient name sensitivity of 0.995 (F-measure=0.705) and 0.989 (F-measure=0.386), respectively.
DISCUSSION
The privacy risk due to two name tokens missed by NLM-NS was statistically negligible, since neither individual could be distinguished among more than 150,000 people listed in the US Social Security Registry.
CONCLUSIONS
The nature and size of name lists have substantial influences on scrubbing success. The use of very large name lists with frequency statistics accounts for much of NLM-NS scrubbing success.
Topics: Confidentiality; Electronic Health Records; Humans; Names; National Library of Medicine (U.S.); Natural Language Processing; United States
PubMed: 24026308
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001689