Tag: phronesis
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The sophia and phronesis of modern medicine
Meaghan O’Connor Durham, North Carolina, United States The Doctor. Luke Fildes, 1891. Tate Gallery, London. Via Wikimedia. My first clinical experience was working as a hospice aide my sophomore year of college. During that experience I watched my first patient suffer—physically and spiritually—and eventually die. Not bound by the time constraints of more formal…
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“Let the people see what I’ve seen”: beauty, suffering, and learning to see
John Eberly Raleigh, North Carolina, United States John Brewer Eberly, Jr. “Study on seeing, 2007.” Personal collection. Charles Stegeman, professor of fine arts at Haverford College, once took up the task of teaching medical students how to draw. He did so because he observed that students who learned to draw well went on to…
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On becoming a good physician
L. Lewis Wall St. Louis, Missouri, USA This is a narrative fiction, and the characters are not a reference to any historical figures. Zeno glanced at the trail ahead of him. He had left the main road a short time before and his destination was now in view, rising up ahead of him to…