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Informed Consent after Cobbs-Has the Patient Been Forgotten
The Doctrine of Informed Consent holds a physician liable for failing to adequately disclose the potential dangers of treatment from it\u27s patient. The doctrine is intended not only to assure that the patient has objective information before deciding on treatment, but also to insulate the physician from liability for battery. However, the courts cannot agree on the application or standards of the informed consent doctrine. Therefore, this Comment discusses the three areas of disagreement: whether the theory of recovery is based on battery or negligence, whether the standard of care required is examined from an expert\u27s opinion, and whether causation requires an objective or subjective standard
Family carers' experience of caring for an older parent with severe and persistent mental illness
While the burden of caring for older people with chronic medical illness and dementia has been well documented, considerably less is known about how carers develop the strength and resilience to sustain this important role with older family members with mental illness. The aim of the study was to understand the lived experience of primary caregivers of older people with severe and persistent mental illness, and to explore what, if anything, helps to sustain them in their caring role. An interpretative phenomenological analysis approach was adopted, and qualitative interviews were used with 30 primary caregivers. Two overarching themes, and related subthemes, were abstracted from the data. First, caring is a difficult and demanding responsibility. It affects carers adversely, emotionally, physically, socially, and financially, and their lifestyle in general. This is reflected in three subthemes: (i) physically and emotionally draining; (ii) grieving about the loss; (iii) and adverse effects on lifestyle and social relationships. Second, carers develop resilience in caring, which helps sustain them in their role, as illustrated in three subthemes: (i) caring as purposeful and satisfying; (ii) harnessing social support from others; and (iii) purposefully maintaining their own well-being. Community mental health nurses have a key role in assessing carers’ needs and supporting them in their caring role
Hemisystems of small flock generalized quadrangles
In this paper, we describe a complete computer classification of the
hemisystems in the two known flock generalized quadrangles of order
and give numerous further examples of hemisystems in all the known flock
generalized quadrangles of order for . By analysing the
computational data, we identify two possible new infinite families of
hemisystems in the classical generalized quadrangle .Comment: slight revisions made following referee's reports, and included raw
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Separating rank 3 graphs
We classify, up to some notoriously hard cases, the rank 3 graphs which fail
to meet either the Delsarte or the Hoffman bound. As a consequence, we resolve
the question of separation for the corresponding rank 3 primitive groups and
give new examples of synchronising, but not , groups of
affine type
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