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Item Are We Treating The Patient or the Disease?(University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy, 2014) Vogt, Eleanor; Shane, Patricia; Kahn, HenryThe evidence abounds. A compelling body of research estimates that psychosocial stressors play a role in a significant number of patient complaints seen in primary care. In addition to the challenges faced by primary care clinicians who must consider their patients' psychosocial stressors, these factors can also affect pharmacists’ care. Patient stress, through a number of mechanisms, can limit the efficacy of medicine as well as our efforts to achieve optimal medication management, and adds a poorly examined complexity to patient care practices. A landmark Institute of Medicine report calls for “whole patient “care, addressing psychosocial health needs, not as an embellishment, but as part of routine care. Whole patient care requires a fundamental shift, with patient needs at the center of healthcare delivery, and psychosocial-linked distress considered as integral to that model. These considerations place this topic squarely within the pharmacists’ scope of practice and urgently call for an expanded approach to patient care and an opportunity for pharmacists to address that need. To parallel this discussion, the contributing role of practitioner stress is briefly reviewed.Item Schillinger and Shamanism: A Synthesis for Music Therapies(2012-01-24) Stephani, AndreA component of the Schillinger System for Musical Composition called the Psychological Dial has been used as a tool to compose music to elicit emotional responses from film audiences to support or disambiguate movie scenes for over fifty years. This same dial can be used as a tool to compose music, which when combined with entrainment technologies born of shamanistic healing practices for millennia, can elicit desired emotional responses from patients in certain medical settings. Such a setting could be to relax a pre-surgery or post-surgery patient which current medical science tells us will allow their immune system to better function in the healing process.