The Physician's Attitude towards the End of the Existence

Current Health Sciences Journal
Emilia PătruRoxana Maria Pascu

Abstract

The physician's attitude towards death, a phenomenon which he frequently encounters in his work practice, is most of the times ambiguous, uncertain, lacking a philosophical significance coherent enough. During the period corresponding to the transition from life to death, when the human being who is about to relinquish life for good lives, suffers, understands and needs assistance, most of the physicians adopt a particular detachment conduct. The physician's participation in assisting the patient, constant until then, natural, sharply decreases the moment the diagnosis has become, "there is nothing else to be done". This phrase "there is nothing else to be done" should be only the conclusion of one phase of the assistance given by a physician, the curative, healing assistance and the beginning of another one, the phase of "assisting the dying person", a phase that has to be an integral part of the physician's mission which represents a more difficult medicine, much more demanding for the physician. At this point, assistance, treatments depend on the ability of the person providing assistance to endure the fear of death in which he is included himself. The necessity of meeting the needs of the dying people has led to the draftin...Continue Reading

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