I found this chapter a lot more interesting than I was expecting. Personally I avoid the doctors office and health industry at all costs. I can't remember the last time I stepped foot into a doctors office for myself. Although I was interested in this chapter, I had difficulty grasping the concepts of the chapter. I really enjoyed the goal of health care communication ethics, "To protect and promote a sense of gratitude and knowledge of a final freedom- our response to health, its absence, and the eventuality of death," (pg. 194). The definition makes a lot of sense to me but I can't understand how to go about it. One of the hardest things to deal with in life is the death of someone you know or may not know, and going about that is a very difficult thing to do.
That is why the section discussing responsiveness made a lot of sense to me. When dealing with one's health, how we respond to it is how we are going to figure out the best way to communicate with them. There are so many different ways that someone could respond to the news of their health. One thing that comes to mind is the movie called, The Bucket List, with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. The two men find out their time left on earth is coming to an end. Instead of sitting in the hospital waiting for that time to come, the two men go out and travel the world, doing things they never would have done. Obviously this isn't always the case but it is one possible situation of how to deal with health care communication ethics.
I enjoyed that reference. I feel as though our response to the event of a terminal illness or anything in our health also affects the response we have to other things in our life. Which I guess that is what you are trying to get at with the movie reference, but it sort of sounded like it was only the way they responded to the illness. They cared for themselves in other ways rather than focusing on the physical; and that was good for them spiritually and emotionally. You know, good intertwining effects. Great movie by the way, I made a bucket list myself because of it.
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