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Title |
Courage and Compassion: Virtues in Caring for So-Called “Difficult” Patients
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Published in |
The AMA Journal of Ethic, April 2017
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DOI | 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.4.medu2-1704 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Michael Hawking, Farr A Curlin, John D Yoon |
Abstract |
What, if anything, can medical ethics offer to assist in the care of the "difficult" patient? We begin with a discussion of virtue theory and its application to medical ethics. We conceptualize the "difficult" patient as an example of a "moral stress test" that especially challenges the physician's character, requiring the good physician to display the virtues of courage and compassion. We then consider two clinical vignettes to flesh out how these virtues might come into play in the care of "difficult" patients, and we conclude with a brief proposal for how medical educators might cultivate these essential character traits in physicians-in-training. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 55 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 12 | 22% |
United Kingdom | 9 | 16% |
Spain | 6 | 11% |
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 2% |
Chile | 1 | 2% |
Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
Germany | 1 | 2% |
Australia | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 23 | 42% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 36 | 65% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 10 | 18% |
Scientists | 7 | 13% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 45 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 45 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 8 | 18% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 13% |
Student > Bachelor | 5 | 11% |
Researcher | 4 | 9% |
Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 9% |
Other | 5 | 11% |
Unknown | 13 | 29% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 16 | 36% |
Psychology | 4 | 9% |
Philosophy | 2 | 4% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 4% |
Social Sciences | 2 | 4% |
Other | 3 | 7% |
Unknown | 16 | 36% |