Sickness, Pain, and Suffering: Reflections on Doctors Dealing With Painful Diseases and the Death of Their Patients  

作　　者：Simone Pizzi 

机构地区：[1]Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria“Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona”,Ancona,Italy

出　　处：《Journal of Philosophy Study》2022年第3期153-161,共9页哲学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：Medicine consists first of all in taking care,also in those cases when it is impossible to cure the patients and to restore their good health.In fact,healthcare workers and doctors are increasingly faced with painful diseases and end-of-life situations.In these difficult circumstances,it becomes necessary for the doctor to recover a more global vision of the person of the patient,and to understand that the present illness can be read as a metaphor of his/her own existence-since the experience of an entire life manifests and redefines itself in the disease.Empathy and compassion constitute a guide to authentic and effective caring that manifests itself in the language used and in attitudes that become externalized as appropriate behaviours.The doctor must do all he/she can in order to alleviate the patient’s physical and psychological pain,using the tools of caregiving and palliative care.

关 键 词：philosophy of medicine illness and metaphor to cure and to care EMPATHY pain relief disease and death 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]