[Personalization concepts of medical ethics in the teachings of John Paul II].
According to John Paul's teaching, the medicine cannot be purely technological, but needs to have some human character. The medicine doctors should consider patients as a whole, not only their problems bound with the treating them as patients, and to cure them from their illnesses, but together considering their feelings, and their intellectual and spiritual life. John Paul's teaching in relation to "the personalizing of medicine" means such a consideration of the human being that is leading to the respect about the body, spirit and their culture. Therefore the knowledge about the biological properties of human life, should be accompanied together with the look onto their dignity. Nobody could be a doctor who cures only one organ of the human's body, but must see the whole human person together with the relations to other persons connected with that patient, because they have very often much of influence on to the health of a patient. That "personalizing of the medicine" should be done on such a way, when it is seen the total ill person. The doctor should be having friendly and even heartily personal relationship to the patient, which should lead to a dialog between them, full of respect and confidence. Nobody is allowed to consider an ill person as a clinical case, but should see a person who is expecting not only professional, competent medical attention, but also the understanding of the patient's spirit, which is being bound with that illness. In this way, John Paul II is telling us, that the health service should not be based entirely on the professional knowledge and skill. The doctor should see in the ill person his own dearest brother or sister, whom we are to love very much, and should be taking part in the illnesses of them.
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Papieska Akademia Teologiczna, Kraków.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D020811:Biomedical Technology; D002835:Christianity; D004645:Empathy; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D010548:Personal Health Services / Q000592:standards; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012068:Religion and Medicine