Art as a Bridge: Using Paintings to Enhance Pain Assessment and Communication in Medical and Surgical Practice.

This paper describes the potential of an art-based tool to enhance pain assessment, communication, and management in healthcare settings. It elucidates a novel tool, artistic pain exploration (APE), for healthcare providers to gain deeper insights into the subjective experiences and expressions of pain beyond traditional clinical assessment tools. We propose that visual art offers an expressive conduit to communicating and understanding not just the nature of pain but also each patient's unique experience.

Integrating Arts and Humanities Into Surgical Education: A Novel Curriculum for Facial Analysis Training.

Objective: The transition to independent surgical practice requires not only technical proficiency but also finely tuned observational skills and patient-centered communication, areas that may receive less emphasis in traditional training. This study introduces From Canvas to Clinic (FCC), a structured curriculum designed to explicitly cultivate visual literacy and diagnostic reasoning in oral and maxillofacial surgery trainees.

Design: Implemented as a 6-week longitudinal course, FCC integrates Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), progressive drawing exercises, and clinical application through structured facial analysis.

The use of Apple smartwatches to obtain vital signs readings in surgical patients.

Wearable devices, such as Apple smartwatches, have been widely used for medical and healthcare purposes. Although they provide a wide array of applications, such as heart rate and oxygen saturation determination, only a few studies have demonstrated the reliability and accuracy of these devices. Hence, this study aimed to assess the reliability of the Apple smartwatch series 8 (ASWs8) in determining heart rate and oxygen saturation against conventional monitoring devices (CMD).

The Effect of Sociocultural Attitudes on Developing Eating Disorders Among Young Females in Almadinah Almunawarah, Saudi Arabia.

Background: Eating disorders (ED) are believed to be more susceptible in women due to varied factors involving dissatisfaction with their body and appearance. The exact cause of ED isn't known. But it may be triggered by biological, psychological, environmental, and social factors.

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor with maxillary metastasis: a case report and literature review.

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) form commonly in the stomach, small intestine, colorectum, and esophagus. Metastatic GIST occurs in up to 50% of patients at presentation. The liver and peritoneal cavity are the most common (93%) metastatic sites; head and neck metastases are extremely rare.