Spotkanie pacjenta z lekarzem oraz anamneza jako clou medycyny narracyjnej w eseistyce Andrzeja Szczeklika
The Patient’s Meeting with the Doctor and Anamnesis as the Clou of Narrative Medicine in Andrzej Szczeklik’s Essays

Summary/Abstract: The patient’s meeting with the doctor and the anamnesis interview are the key questions of narrative medicine elaborated by Rita Charon and practiced in the West since the1990s. In Andrzej Szczeklik’s essays, which draw on Charon’s research as well as Hans G.Gadamer’s philosophical work, they are essential postulates in the process of diagnosis. Szczeklik highlights the role of the understanding between patient and practicioner and the emotional comfort provided by communucation, whereby dialogue and the phenomenological interpretation of anamnesis – the patien’t maladic narrative– represent the fundamental stage, the basis of objective examination and further diagnositc activities as well as the course of the therapy. Szczeklik exalts the profession of the doctor, emphasising its mission in the era of medicalisation and bureaucracy andrestoring the significance of a calling and of mindfulness. His Nieśmiertelność invites us to reflect on the need to include training in communication skills in medical studies, asthese are essential, for instance in times of a pandemic.

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