<span itemprop="author">Scott Janssen, MSW, LCSW

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The hidden connection between dementia and PTSD

Health care professionals working with dementia patients should be aware that a higher-than-average percentage of their patients are likely to have PTSD. Research has found that people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear to have a higher …

The power of empathy: a tale of two prostate biopsies

I’m sitting in a windowless room in the hospital’s urology department waiting for my second prostate biopsy, feeling surprisingly calm and relaxed. It’s a surveillance biopsy. Two years ago, the first one revealed “a few scatter…