CURE Quote
The standard gamble involves asking subjects to choose between living in the relevant health state (which is less than ideal) for the rest of one’s life, or taking a gamble on a treatment that has the probability p of producing a cure, or a less desirable outcome (typically, immediate death) with risk 1− p (50).
— Ian McDowell, Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires, 2008-
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Healing, Caring, Curing – Compared
Is healing curing? Is curing healing? Does caring cure? Does it heal? With the conceptual framework of the New Theory of Cure, we can look at these questions in a new light. In October 2023, I published a post on … Continue reading
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