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Professor Omar Hasan Kasule Sr.
Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine
Medicine 2010 Conference
14-17 March 2010
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Importance of etiquette
1.2 Purposes, principles, and values of etiquette-based medicine
1.3 Quality vs quantity of life
1.4 Positive view of illness
1.5 Holistic, integrated, and balanced medicine
1.5 The ideal physician: iman, taqwat, amanat, & akhlaq
2.0 ETIQUETTE OF THE BED-SIDE VISIT..1
2.1 Obligation to visit the patient, wujuub iyadat al mariidh
2.2 Prophet’s visiting a patient
2.3 Greeting the patient
2.4 Dua for the patient
2.5 Talking with the patient
2.0 ETIQUETTE OF THE BED-SIDE VISIT..2
2.6 Respecting rights of the patient to informed consent
2.7 Prevention of contagion
2.8 Appearance of the caregiver
2.9 Mannerisms of the caregiver
2.10 Emotional involvement
3.0 DEALING WITH THE FAMILY
3.1 Rights of visitation for the family
3.2 Support
3.3 Reassurance:
3.4 Involvement
3.5 What not to do: interference and conflicts
4.0 ETIQUETTE OF THE PATIENT
4.1 Gratitude
4.2 Patience
4.3 Dua
4.4 Activities of daily living: sneezing, eating. drinking
4.5 Emotions: hope and anger
5.0 ETIQUETTE WITH THE DYING
5.1 Comfort: pain control, communication, hygiene, & wudhu
5.2 Ibadat: salat, saum, zakat, hajj
5.3 Spiritual preparation: anxiety, repentance, facing death
5.4 Legal preparation: will, organ donation, debts,
5.5 The last moments, death, burial, and mourning