Stručni rad
The Functional Importance of Communication in Doctors' Activities
Živka STANIČIĆ
Sažetak
The paper analyses two main directions of doctors' activities:
purposeful-rational and communicative activities. It is proven
that the overall activity of doctors cannot be based
exclusively on natural, empirical sciences, in spite of the fact that many doctors find this field the safest. In therapeutic
reality the purposeful-rational activity represents not more
than a preliminary stage; for the complete treatment of a
patient, the doctor needs to move from the level of
establishing facts by "measurement" and "calculation" to the
level of observation of the actual patient, which, however,
involves a completely different and in principle new medical
activity: communication. Through good communication the
doctor can eliminate the most negative implications of the
role of patient due to which the patients may have to live
temporarily and/or permanently their whole social lives with
limitations. Communication in an interpersonal relationship
between the doctor and patient is necessary not only
because it successfully denies the emphasised asymmetry of
power in their relationship, creating thus a satisfactory
environment enabling the doctor to achieve maximum, real,
objective therapeutic effects, but also because people, as
historical beings, cannot be completely understood by pure
objectivisation and measurement.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
19698
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.6.2002.
Posjeta: 1.697 *