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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
[When medicine is respectful.]
Michela Chiarlo1, Paola Arcadi2, Marco Bobbio3
1MECAU2 Ospedale San Giovanni Bosco, Torino.
Abstract:
There is a relevant gap between the medicine learned on books and the clinical practice made of suffering humans facing us. Guidelines recommendations don't usually cover this aspect. The Slow Medicine movement, born in 2011, stands as a model a sober respectful and right healthcare. Everyone is entitled to express himself freely: a respectful medicine receives worths, choices and tendencies of the patient in every moment of his life. The keystone of slow decisions is to respect patient's freedom and autonomy, and to recognize his ability to make decisions even if he is elderly and frail. Listening to a patient's biography and welcoming his personal needs and expectations allows the physician to spread comfort, trust and gratification.
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