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have a phenomenal impact on personal health. Medical professionals, however, can play an important role in helping their patients cope with stress. While there is little that we
can do in the short term to alleviate the non-medical chronic stressors in a patients life, we can at least make an effort to listen to their problems and offer
objective advise for those problems. This can go a long way in assisting a patient to manage their own stress.
As medical professionals there is a lot we can do about the acute stress in a patients life. We can work our schedules around their rest periods, for example,
rather than interrupting them when it is most convenient for us to take blood, to weigh them, or to perform other routine duties. We can also be cognizant of
other aspects of their environment that is heightening their stress level. If their roommate is comforted by a loud television and they are disturbed by the noise it is
a small matter, for example, to arrange a room change. If they are uncomfortably hot yet their roommate is comfortable we can bring them a fan. There are,
in fact, many small things that we can do to reduce our patients stress levels that have nothing but positive impacts on their propensity to heal.
Reflection Activity: Chronic Illness Chronic illness is something that can vary in
its impact both according to the specifics of the illness and according to the person that it is affecting. Consider, for example, an elderly individual with chronic obstructive pulmonary
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