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How can attending physicians be more attentive? On being attentive versus producing attentiveness
This article is about caregivers being attentive to patients in healthcare. From earlier work on the understanding of the other, we know that it is impossible to completely understand the experiences of others. By the sharing of subjectivity—intersubjectivity—we may try to ‘grasp’ the other’s point...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989005/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26951520 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-015-9669-y |
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description | This article is about caregivers being attentive to patients in healthcare. From earlier work on the understanding of the other, we know that it is impossible to completely understand the experiences of others. By the sharing of subjectivity—intersubjectivity—we may try to ‘grasp’ the other’s point of view. However, we can never assume that the same experience produces the same experience. Now, if it is principally impossible to understand the experience of one another, and if paying attention always implies an understanding of what to pay attention to, then how is it possible to be attentive to the experiences of those who are entirely at the mercy of our care? How can caregivers perceive the impossibility of understanding the experiences of patients as an appeal to be attentive to their experiences? This is discussed in this article. It departs from the authors being confronted with inexplicabilities in the empirical study of attentiveness in healthcare. It presents two examples and discusses the meaning of these emergent properties. This leads to a discussion of the existent literature on the indefiniteness and openness of attentiveness. It becomes clear why, although we can understand and predict much of it, attentiveness will always be characterized by a certain uncontrollability as well. |
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spelling | pubmed-49890052016-09-01 How can attending physicians be more attentive? On being attentive versus producing attentiveness Klaver, Klaartje Baart, Andries Med Health Care Philos Scientific Contribution This article is about caregivers being attentive to patients in healthcare. From earlier work on the understanding of the other, we know that it is impossible to completely understand the experiences of others. By the sharing of subjectivity—intersubjectivity—we may try to ‘grasp’ the other’s point of view. However, we can never assume that the same experience produces the same experience. Now, if it is principally impossible to understand the experience of one another, and if paying attention always implies an understanding of what to pay attention to, then how is it possible to be attentive to the experiences of those who are entirely at the mercy of our care? How can caregivers perceive the impossibility of understanding the experiences of patients as an appeal to be attentive to their experiences? This is discussed in this article. It departs from the authors being confronted with inexplicabilities in the empirical study of attentiveness in healthcare. It presents two examples and discusses the meaning of these emergent properties. This leads to a discussion of the existent literature on the indefiniteness and openness of attentiveness. It becomes clear why, although we can understand and predict much of it, attentiveness will always be characterized by a certain uncontrollability as well. Springer Netherlands 2016-03-07 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4989005/ /pubmed/26951520 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-015-9669-y Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Scientific Contribution Klaver, Klaartje Baart, Andries How can attending physicians be more attentive? On being attentive versus producing attentiveness |
title | How can attending physicians be more attentive? On being attentive versus producing attentiveness |
title_full | How can attending physicians be more attentive? On being attentive versus producing attentiveness |
title_fullStr | How can attending physicians be more attentive? On being attentive versus producing attentiveness |
title_full_unstemmed | How can attending physicians be more attentive? On being attentive versus producing attentiveness |
title_short | How can attending physicians be more attentive? On being attentive versus producing attentiveness |
title_sort | how can attending physicians be more attentive? on being attentive versus producing attentiveness |
topic | Scientific Contribution |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989005/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26951520 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-015-9669-y |
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