Liars, Medicine, and Compassion

Ekstrom, Laura W.

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“…Merhamet kavramından söz edilince akla ilk gelen kavramlardan biri olan acıma, ötekinin durumuna yönelik farkındalık gerekliliği sebebiyle merhamet ile benzeşse de, Acıma, acı çekenin acılarını dindirmek adına pozitif bir katılım içermezken Merhamette karşıdakine dönük kuvvetli bir ilgi, saygı ve aktif katılım söz konusudur (Ekstrom, 2012).…”

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The Regulatory Role of Compassion in the Influence of the Personality Trait of Responsibility on Task and Contextual Performance

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Kavak²

2017

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Purpose-Compassion, which has entered into the field of positive psychology and has increased in importance in the recent times, is separated from many characteristics by feeling, empathy and sympathy. Compassion is an emotional response that involves intense interest, sensitivity, active and positive participation, respect for one's desire to help. The high level of mental ability positively affects employees' performance outcomes. Therefore, merciful employees create more productive and trustworthy workplaces. In this context, the research is to examine the relationship between intentional compassion, responsibility personality and employee performance. Methodology-Research data were obtained from employees working in various sectors. The obtained data were analysed through IBM SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 22.0 packet programs. Findings-As a result of the research, significant relationships were found between employees' values of compassion, responsibility and performance. Employees with higher levels of compassion and responsibility were found to have a higher contextual and task performance than employees with lower levels of compassion and responsibility. Conclusion-Only employees' good qualifications should not be set as criteria in purchases to workplaces. It is suggested that humanitarian aspects such as compassion and responsibility should be examined. Keywords:Compassion, conscientiousness trait, task performance, contextual performance. JEL Codes: M10, M16, M19. SORUMLULUK KİŞİLİK ÖZELLİĞİNİN GÖREV VE BAĞLAMSAL PERFORMANS ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİNDE MERHAMETİN DÜZENLEYİCİ ROLÜ ÖZETAmaç-Pozitif psikoloji alanına giren ve son zamanlarda önemi artan merhamet, birçok özellikleri ile acıma, empati ve sempatiden ayrılmaktadır. Merhamet, kişinin karşısındakine yardım etme arzusu ile duyduğu saygıyı, yoğun bir ilgiyi, duyarlı olmayı, aktif ve pozitif bir katılımı içeren duygusal bir yanıttır. Bu ruhsal yeteneğin yüksek olması çalışanların performans çıktılarını olumlu olarak etkilemektedir. Bu kapsamda yapılan araştırmanın amacı merhamet, sorumluluk kişilik özelliği ve çalışan performansı arasındaki ilişkilerin incelenmesidir. Yöntem-Araştırma verileri çeşitli sektörlerde görev yapan çalışanlardan elde edilmiştir. Elde edilen bu veriler, IBM SPSS 21.0 ve AMOS 22.0 paket programları aracılığı ile analiz edilmiştir. Bulgular-Araştırma sonucunda çalışanların merhamet, sorumluluk ve performans değerleri arasında anlamlı ilişkiler görülerek, merhamet ve sorumluluk düzeyi yüksek çalışanların, düşük olanlara görece bağlamsal ve görev performanslarının daha yüksek olduğu anlaşılmıştır. Sonuç-İşyerlerine çalışan alımlarında sadece çalışanların iyi nitelikleri kriter olarak belirlenmemeli, bunun yanında merhamet, sorumluluk gibi insani yönlerinin de irdelenmesi önerilmektedir.Anahtar Kelimeler: Merhamet, sorumlu kişilik, görev performansı, bağlamsal performans. JEL Kodları: M10, M16, M19.

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The Regulatory Role of Compassion in the Influence of the Personality Trait of Responsibility on Task and Contextual Performance

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Kavak²

2017

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“…However, there is an emerging view that compassion is an inseparable and central quality in health care [11]. Health professionals should be both compassionate and competent, rather than competent or compassionate [12].…”

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Integrating compassion to clinical care: a review of an emerging ‘Science’

Jayasinghe

2017

Cey. J. Med. Sci.

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Sympathy, empathy and compassion are a family of connected mental states or emotions that relate to understanding and responding to another"s feelings. Compassion can be defined as a feeling that arises when witnessing another"s suffering, and motivates a desire to help. It differs from empathy, which is experiencing another"s feelings, and sympathy (a feeling of sorrow and concern to another"s pain or suffering).

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“…Like one's dying, pain is also an entirely personal and subjective experience. Laura W. Ekstrom's essay, "Liars, Medicine, and Compassion," explores the problem of pain and how compassion, rightly understood, might help to bridge the gap between patient experience and the medical model of pain (Ekstrom, 2012). Traditionally, we doctors are taught to search for a cause of pain.…”

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“…Ekstrom understands compassion to be a means by which that gap can be negotiated between the person in pain and the practitioner. She argues for what she calls the Rousseauian Account of Compassion; it states: "Compassion is a painful feeling occasioned at the awareness or recognition of someone else's suffering or misfortune that triggers action aimed at alleviating the suffering" (Ekstrom, 2012). In other words, one might feel the pain of another, only differently so, and this negative experience calls one to act on behalf of the other.…”

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“…1 Put differently, yet again, compassion is to feel the pain of another and to work diligently to alleviate it as best as one can. Ekstrom concludes: "One cannot be conscious of another's distress and moved to help alleviate it-the hallmarks of compassion-without first believing in the distress, taking the patient at her word in her description of her problem, and without having the humility that prevents one from assuming that one can discern the answers to unasked relevant questions by a glance" (Ekstrom, 2012). In addition to a few structural recommendations, Ekstrom notes that a tincture of humility and trust and a goal-directed compassion would go a long way to bridging the gap between subjective experience of the patient and the call to respond to that experience by the practitioner.…”

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Subjective Experience and Medical Practice

Bishop

2012

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

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Careful attention to patient experience is often neglected in contemporary medicine. For the doctors who care for patients, the patient's experience is often understood as, at best, a story that points them to the truth of an illness or as, at worst, a set of propositions about a state of affairs experienced by one person and potentially false. Of course, the best physicians will take the description of that state of affairs as a true account. Yet even for the best among us, that account is quickly subsumed under the heading "HPI" in the admission History and Physical or under the heading of "subjective" in the daily SOAP note. And as any physician knows, "subjective" is a term of equivocation: what falls under the "subjective" account may or may not be true. Still, any good clinician knows that the vast majority of diagnoses are made in the story told by the patient or rather in the history taken by the physician; for surely, the history is already a translation or interpretation of sorts, and like all histories, the medical history is told with a purpose that I, as the physician, have in making a diagnosis. In the story that has been reconstituted as a history, I, as a physician, understand that the patient's story is filtered through a set of cultural meanings. Or perhaps better, I understand that the patient experience, say of pain, is always already experienced in a cultural idiom. Hopefully, it is a cultural idiom of which I am aware; for only then can a proper translation and interpretation occur. Still, it is almost as if the cultural significance is lost in translation. Moreover, since all experience is always already in a cultural idiom, to some extent, the experience itself drops out and is distilled into a supposedly acultural anatomic or physiological "truth" by the interpretive activity of the physician. The medical belief structure is that this new reconstituted "truth" is not just subjective, but something that can be triangulated through the physical exam and other forms of testing, something that is real in the world, something that I can get my head around, or my hands on; something that is the source of the patient's distress that I can manipulate for the good of the patient.

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Liars, Medicine, and Compassion

Cited by 13 publications

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The Regulatory Role of Compassion in the Influence of the Personality Trait of Responsibility on Task and Contextual Performance

The Regulatory Role of Compassion in the Influence of the Personality Trait of Responsibility on Task and Contextual Performance

Integrating compassion to clinical care: a review of an emerging ‘Science’

Subjective Experience and Medical Practice

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