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Suffering-based medicine: practicing scientific medicine with a humanistic approach
Suffering, defined as a state of undergoing pain, distress or hardship, is a multidimensional concept; it can entail physical, psychological and spiritual distress that prompts the sufferer to seek medical attention. As a construct originating from and unique to each patient, no patient’s suffering...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7260253/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31432316 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-019-09920-8 |
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description | Suffering, defined as a state of undergoing pain, distress or hardship, is a multidimensional concept; it can entail physical, psychological and spiritual distress that prompts the sufferer to seek medical attention. As a construct originating from and unique to each patient, no patient’s suffering is equal to another’s or completely reducible to any generalizable frame of understanding. As it happens in a common medical encounter, the suffering patient requires an anamnesis provided by attentive and comprehensive listening to both the said and unsaid parts of his or her discourse interpreted through the hermeneutical skills of the physician. Suffering can then be decoded into a complex construct, which can guide the formulation of a strategy to help patient coping by attempting to find meaning in it. To help this search for meaning, one may employ philosophic therapy, bibliotherapy and counseling, among other approaches. Suffering-based medicine (SBM) thus circumvents the limitations of the reductionistic Allopathic medical frame of understanding of disease. Such an attitude should be a common goal for all scientific medicine practitioners, as it complements and does not conflict with any of its therapeutic modalities. Furthermore, medical education should include humanistic disciplines to empower physicians to better understand their patients’ experience of suffering. |
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spelling | pubmed-72602532020-06-08 Suffering-based medicine: practicing scientific medicine with a humanistic approach del Giglio, Auro Med Health Care Philos Short Communication Suffering, defined as a state of undergoing pain, distress or hardship, is a multidimensional concept; it can entail physical, psychological and spiritual distress that prompts the sufferer to seek medical attention. As a construct originating from and unique to each patient, no patient’s suffering is equal to another’s or completely reducible to any generalizable frame of understanding. As it happens in a common medical encounter, the suffering patient requires an anamnesis provided by attentive and comprehensive listening to both the said and unsaid parts of his or her discourse interpreted through the hermeneutical skills of the physician. Suffering can then be decoded into a complex construct, which can guide the formulation of a strategy to help patient coping by attempting to find meaning in it. To help this search for meaning, one may employ philosophic therapy, bibliotherapy and counseling, among other approaches. Suffering-based medicine (SBM) thus circumvents the limitations of the reductionistic Allopathic medical frame of understanding of disease. Such an attitude should be a common goal for all scientific medicine practitioners, as it complements and does not conflict with any of its therapeutic modalities. Furthermore, medical education should include humanistic disciplines to empower physicians to better understand their patients’ experience of suffering. Springer Netherlands 2019-08-20 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7260253/ /pubmed/31432316 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-019-09920-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 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 | Short Communication del Giglio, Auro Suffering-based medicine: practicing scientific medicine with a humanistic approach |
title | Suffering-based medicine: practicing scientific medicine with a humanistic approach |
title_full | Suffering-based medicine: practicing scientific medicine with a humanistic approach |
title_fullStr | Suffering-based medicine: practicing scientific medicine with a humanistic approach |
title_full_unstemmed | Suffering-based medicine: practicing scientific medicine with a humanistic approach |
title_short | Suffering-based medicine: practicing scientific medicine with a humanistic approach |
title_sort | suffering-based medicine: practicing scientific medicine with a humanistic approach |
topic | Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7260253/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31432316 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-019-09920-8 |
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