Commentary: patient well-being and individual outcomes in the medical practice: impulses from philosophy
Abstract In an everyday private practice setting, regularly also existential topics will emerge from doctor-patient encounters. These are often questions of coping with life and lifestyle. To enable a thorough discussion of such topics, an implicit, and sometimes also explicit reference to a philoso...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13010-019-0071-x |
| Summary: | Abstract In an everyday private practice setting, regularly also existential topics will emerge from doctor-patient encounters. These are often questions of coping with life and lifestyle. To enable a thorough discussion of such topics, an implicit, and sometimes also explicit reference to a philosophical background is needed. Philosophical concepts to be used in this realm are discussed. An individual patient-doctor interaction is used as an example to demonstrate the doctor’s choice of hermeneutical and phenomenological philosophical concepts. |
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| ISSN: | 1747-5341 |