Using curiosity to render the invisible, visible.

Theoretical medicine and bioethics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-20 DOI:10.1007/s11017-024-09665-3
Katherine Cheung
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Abstract

Virtues commonly associated with physicians and other healthcare professionals include empathy, respect, kindness, compassion, trustworthiness, and many more. Building upon the work of Bortolloti, Murphy-Hollies, and others, I suggest that curiosity as a virtue has an integral role to play in healthcare, namely, in helping to make those who are invisible, visible. Practicing the virtue of curiosity enables one to engage with and explore the experiences of patients and contributes toward building a physician-patient relationship of trust. As the perspectives and experiences of patients can be too often dismissed or lost within medical settings, curiosity can allow physicians to deeply know their patients, and thus provide better care. However, caution must be exercised so as to not to venture into inappropriate curiosity, where questions are asked for improper reasons or to help satisfy the personal interest of physicians. Finally, I sketch out two cases-on chronic pain and on vaccine hesitancy-to illustrate where curiosity can play a valuable role.

用好奇心让无形变得有形。
通常与医生和其他医疗保健专业人员相关的美德包括同理心、尊重、善良、同情心、值得信赖等等。在 Bortolloti、Murphy-Hollies 等人的研究基础上,我认为好奇心作为一种美德,在医疗保健领域发挥着不可或缺的作用,即帮助人们看到那些看不见的人。践行好奇心这一美德能让人参与并探索病人的经历,有助于建立医患之间的信任关系。在医疗环境中,病人的观点和经历往往被忽视或遗忘,因此,好奇心可以让医生深入了解病人,从而提供更好的医疗服务。然而,必须谨慎行事,以免陷入不恰当的好奇心,即出于不正当的原因或为了满足医生的个人利益而提问。最后,我简要介绍了两个案例--慢性疼痛和疫苗犹豫,以说明好奇心可以在哪些方面发挥重要作用。
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