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Archive for March 15th, 2024

Communication can help patients but also harm them when they are confronted with a serious illness (via Twitter: Liesbeth van Vliet)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/15

I reacted to a Dutch [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @NL_Wetenschap on Thread Reader App (which has an excellent Google translation [Wayback/Archive]).

The responses mentioned these two interesting English papers and a nice YouTube video:

I have first hand experience from my cancer treatment period where despite having a companion and emphatic care takers, I did not comprehend large parts of the information.

Two tips:

  1. Ensure you and your caretakers are on the same “wavelength” communicating. If you don’t: politely ask for another caretaker in the team.
  2. Always bring a companion with you that knows your case very well.

The rest of this post is in Dutch containing the original tweets:

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The Global Delphi Summit: June 13+14 in “Amsterdam” (actually the H20 venue in Purmerend)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/15

Cool event – for me even relatively close (about 60 minutes driving) – [Wayback/Archive] The Global Delphi Summit taking place this year on June 13 and 14.

The speaker line-up is great as are their sessions. The main web-site pages are:

Via [Wayback/Archive] Delphi Summit 2024 – GDK Software

If you come from abroad, consider spending a few extra days. Purmerend has a nice old Dutch city center with roots going back as far as the 1100s. The map File:Waterland 1288.jpg – Wikimedia Commons shows it situated in between various lakes which in the 1600s all became land by pumping out the water and transforming them into polders. There are scenic routes over many of the dikes surrounding these polders.

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