52 Such diagnostic criteria would enable more rational treatment decisions, limit antimicrobial use to those most likely to respond, and decrease suffering by identification of animals unlikely to survive.
But these attempts to decrease suffering ultimately end up minimizing and invalidating the person's experience, rather than bearing witness to it.
"I can't think of a more fulfilling career, one that is designed solely to decrease suffering.
As a clinician, Herbert Benzer made every effort to decrease suffering and to restore health to his patients.
We think that abortion increases wellbeing (goodness) and decreases suffering (evil) in the form of child abuse, depression, crime, and overpopulation -- or simply the involuntary loss of a woman's other precious life affirming and life-giving activities.
Principles of integrative medicine including addressing mind, body, and spirit can facilitate the process of decreasing suffering through enhancing meaning.
The outcomes of several evaluation studies are promising with improved self esteem, optimism, mood, sense of meaning, spiritual well-being and decreased suffering after intervention.
When the outcome meant decreased suffering from migraine, it was experienced as a relief in the psychological and existential areas as well.
However, Against Malaria Foundation does not have good stories to tell, and thus by comparison gets much less funding, despite arguably doing much better work to decrease suffering and advance global flourishing.
The purpose of DT is "to decrease suffering, enhance quality of life, and bolster a sense of meaning, purpose and dignity" [ 5].
