• DocumentCode
    672022
  • Title

    Multimedia supporting modern demosthene

  • Author

    Arhip, Odette ; Arhip, Cristian

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Commun. Sci., Ecological Univ., Bucharest, Romania
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    21-23 Nov. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    This paper presents patients recovered after head, neck and mouth cancer and it has as main objective the observations regarding quality-of-life changes. The medical record is briefly exposed. We highlight the modalities by which the patients healed their inside and outside scars commanding respect due especially to media exposure. They rebuilt their personalities becoming public speakers, blog-writers, fundraisers, being kind of modern Demosthenes. The Attic Demosthenes fought with a speech impediment and he considerably practiced to deliver orations. The modern Demosthenes have to face the fear of premature death, diverse traumas, lack of voice, disfigured faces, very low self-esteem, long bodily and psychic severe distress, difficult social reintegration. The online world has offered proper ways to present their experiences via videoconferences, blogs, sites, interviews and speeches on YouTube. The development of educational initiatives from these inspirational stories may be an effective, procreative strategy.
  • Keywords
    biomedical education; cancer; electronic health records; patient care; teleconferencing; telemedicine; video communication; Attic Demosthenes; YouTube; blog-writers; disfigured faces; diverse traumas; fund raisers; head cancer; lack-of-voice; low self-esteem; media exposure; medical record; modern Demosthene; mouth cancer; multimedia; neck cancer; patient healing; patient recovery; premature death; psychic severe distress; public speakers; quality-of-life changes; scars; social reintegration; speeches; videoconferences; Cancer; Face; Media; Medical diagnostic imaging; Mouth; Multimedia communication; Neck; education; multimedia; oral cancer; personality; reintegration;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    E-Health and Bioengineering Conference (EHB), 2013
  • Conference_Location
    Iasi
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-2372-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EHB.2013.6707368
  • Filename
    6707368