Deborah D.

Mrs. Deborah D. experienced a positive atmosphere.

Mrs. Deborah D., daughter of a patient, describes a very positive atmosphere for the patients in the intensive care unit.

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Corine Mouton-Dorey

Corine Mouton-Dorey focuses her research on patient agency and accountability. Her PhD work on biomedical ethics identified the importance of the patients’voices in medical practice for better care, trust and justice in health. She has a practical experience with patients both as a cardiologist and as a qualitative researcher. She supports  the french-speaking part of the DIPEx project and work on the possibilities to enrich DIPEx process and outcomes with digital technology.

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Mrs. Deborah D. experienced a positive atmosphere.

So I found it very good. On the second or third day, I don’t remember, there was an extraordinary atmosphere. There were many young people there, young nurses. My mother likes to work with young people, because she always says that all generations are great to mix: I learn, they learn, and everything. And I think it worked really well. Everybody told me, ” that we love your mom, she is very cooperative, she was really sweet.” And I was very afraid of that; I thought she (my mother) will know she’s screwed, she might get angry, she’ll want to take it off, she’ll…. and then she actually didn’t. Well, she was already on a lot of medication, so I think she was a little bit “stoned” too. But I know that they were saying, that they were playing music too; she was almost laughing, well she was saying, they’re nice, I don’t know, she said, they’re nice; then I said: ah, you’re lucky and they’re cute; then she said yes, yes. She said to me, my mother: I don’t know, sometimes I have the impression that I was in a discotheque, I don’t know, I don’t know where I was, there was noise. So she, was she perhaps also drunk with the drugs, a little euphoric too, I don’t know. But in any case, they were sweet.

Experiences in the intensive care unit

With the technical and medical possibilities on intensive care a patient can be able to survive life-threatening illnesses. These experiences of critical illness and intensive care medicine are challenging for patients and families. Often experiences made on intensive care unit (ICU) can be life changing.
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Corine Mouton-Dorey

Corine Mouton-Dorey focuses her research on patient agency and accountability. Her PhD work on biomedical ethics identified the importance of the patients’voices in medical practice for better care, trust and justice in health. She has a practical experience with patients both as a cardiologist and as a qualitative researcher. She supports  the french-speaking part of the DIPEx project and work on the possibilities to enrich DIPEx process and outcomes with digital technology.

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