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莫庆尧访问学人公开讲座-杨永强教授主讲「以人为本的善终治疗: 医疗体系的道德基础」(1) 讲座日期: 十一月二十四日(2) 十一月二十二日截止报名

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日期:

2017年10月27日 - 2017年11月24日

時間:

6:00pm-7:00pm

地點:

沙田威尔斯亲王医院中大深造中心 / 赛马会公共卫生学院

講者:

杨永强教授

講者簡歷:

Professor Yeoh is Professor of Public Health, Director at the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and also Head of Division of Health System, Policy and Management at the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care. His research is in health systems, services and policy with an interest in applying systems thinking in studying how the complex components of health systems interact and interrelate to improve health. One current research uses methods in system science for integration of health and social care for the elderly population and he has recently completed a study commissioned by Health and Medical Research Fund on end-of-life care. He leads in the Asia Pacific Network for Health Systems Strengthening in knowledge transfer to enable strengthening of health systems, and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the National University of Singapore Initiative to improve health in Asia.

Prior to joining The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Professor Yeoh was Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) between 1999 and 2004. From 1990 to 1999, Professor Yeoh was head & the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority with the responsibility of the management and transformation of the public hospital system. He was President of the International Hospital Federation from 2001 to 2003 and was awarded the Hospital Management Asia Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.

As a clinician, he pioneered public health programmes in the prevention of Hepatitis B and HIV/AIDS. He was awarded JP in 1993, OBE in 1997 by the Hong Kong Government and GBS in 2005 by the Government of the HKSAR in recognition of his public service.

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3943 9876 / medevent@cuhk.edu.hk

講座摘要:

“The last year of my life has been by far the most meaningful. The closeness with death allowed me to reap treasures of love and beauty whose seeds I had laid throughout my life.”
– 17 year old with terminal recurrent sarcoma: Balducci 2011

When cure is not possible, healing is always achievable. Healing occurs through a process in which human persons seek, express and find meaning, discover a unique purpose and sense of coherence. It infers that suffering and death as all other human experiences, represent opportunities which defines our humanness, a paradox of vulnerability to suffering and the strength for healing residing in each person.

Narratives are used by patients to relate difficult, painful & complex experiences and are mechanisms for exploration of their preferences, values and wishes. Narratives are a way for patients to make sense of the illness in the healing process. Narrative knowledge enables our understanding of the person’s reaction to the clinical condition and the illness experience, providing insights for the healing process.

The primary goal of end-of-life care is healing, the cure for suffering. The role of health professionals in each unique healing process is to be an active partner with the person, for which the health professional needs narrative in addition to clinical competence. The need for healing arising from the illness experience which assaults the person’s humanness are the groundings of morality for those who profess to heal and for those who profess to provide the capacity for healing in health system. This posits the mission of healthcare not only in providing the capacity, capability and environment for healing in end-of-life care but also espouses an appreciation that each person’s healing process is unique. Healing is always achievable and should be a moral compass for health systems in the goals of care for every person suffering from any illness.

A curriculum based on the science of narrative medicine, has been pioneered at Colombia University in New York, which trains health professionals with narrative skills for an authentic engagement. Narrative competence enables a privileged and dutiful experience of how the patient contemplates pain, suffering and contemplates our mortal limits, and creates avenues of human affiliation that alone, can ease suffering and enable healing.