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Geoffrey Ball and his Innovation: VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE Hearing Implant.

Interviews with Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine.

Talk about Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medicines and Self-Care.

SINGAPORE – Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed) Announces Partnership with Duke-NUS Medical School’s Centre of Regulatory Excellence (CoRE), Pledging Joint Commitment to Promote Regulatory Convergence and Capacity Building Across the Region.

SINGAPORE – Guardian Partners with MyDoc to Address Singapore’s Population Health Needs through Integrating Technology and Self-Care.

SINGAPORE & UNITED STATES – CellMax Life’s Precision, Non-Invasive Cancer Testing Now Available throughout Southeast Asia through Asia Genomics.

UNITED STATES – 3-D Printed Models Could Improve Patient Outcomes in Heart Valve Replacements.

UNITED STATES – Promising Target to Protect Bone in Patients with Diabetes.

UNITED STATES – New Antibody Appears to Re-Activate Immune System in Cancer Therapy.

UNITED STATES – Combo Immunotherapy May Herald New Standard of Care for Kidney Cancer.

JAPAN – Chugai’s Bispecific Antibody “Emicizumab” Global Phase III Data in Patients with Haemophilia A with Inhibitors Published in The New England Journal of Medicine Online.

RUSSIA & INDIA – BIOCAD’s Rituximab Biosimilar to Receive Market Authorization Soon in India.

With around 90% of people dying with cancer preferring to die at home, palliative care is an important aspect of General Practice work as GPs care for 5–8 patients dying of cancer each year on average. This chapter seeks to explore the experience of GP palliative care from three perspectives.

(1) Palliative care as a paradigm of excellence for the generalist. The specific nature of palliative care allows GPs to showcase the strength of a generalist approach. This ‘excellence’ manifests as a creative tension between evidence-based biomedical care, a patient-centred approach and the more traditional role of ‘healer’. GPs think and reflect around patient stories, rather than the abstraction of data to achieve best practice care. Teamwork is an emerging aspect of such care.

(2) Palliative care can be a catalyst for maturity for General Practitioners. One quarter of GPs choose not to become involved in palliative services. For the majority who do so, they embark on a journey towards maturity as a practitioner. In this section the issues explored include maturity and suffering, educational challenges, communication and relational skills, self-awareness including cultural and spiritual awareness and the strength of becoming a ‘wounded healer’.

(3) Palliative care and the challenge of self-care. GPs do not have a strong tradition of self-care activities. The experience of palliative care has the potential to cause stress and burn out. GPs need to pay attention to self-care and there is emerging evidence to help in this area. The ‘experience of dying’ again has specific challenges which need both thoughtful care and self-care. This can extend into the ‘aftermath’ period when managing one's grief and supporting the wider family take precedence.

The ideology of neoliberalism serves to obscure the true costs of neoliberal influence on university campuses. In recent decades, for example, university faculty have increasingly come to be viewed as “employees” serving “clients,” a move that serves to centralize power in the workplace, undermine academic independence, and justify increasing faculty workloads. These trends are bad news for faculty with disabilities, including those who live with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), because they have served to perpetuate ableism in the academic workplace. This chapter includes a brief autoethnographic account of academic work life written from the perspective of a faculty member who lives with ADHD. It concludes with a call for a two-pronged response to neoliberal demands for hyper-productivity. Such a response would combine appropriate workplace accommodations with the promotion of modes of self-care that prioritize critical reflection.