The doctor/sick person relationship considered as an act of affection and love for the patient. We will soon celebrate the first 25 years of the 21st century. From 2021 to 2025 there is only one step.
Technology versus patient affectivity
Technology has burst into modern society in general in the form of computers, cell phones, tablets, etc. and in particular in medicine, where a multitude of high-tech devices for diagnosis and treatment have become indispensable.
Technolatry in our lives
The importance of technology is so great that an American social critic has created the concept of Technolatry, defining the term as the almost religious worship of technology, the deification of a product of science. What in earlier times was the concept of God has been taken over by technology. However, there have been many philosophers and sociologists who have risen up against technology turned into Technolatry because of the evident danger that its great power will pass over man himself and dominate him, instead of man dominating the relationship. Technology, like any scientific advance, is for the service of man, it is not man who must serve technology. Techno-addiction and techno-dependence does not affect only the youth, but is a hallmark of today’s all-pervasive culture. Its impact on medical acts is very evident in all the analyses carried out.
Dehumanization of technology between the physician and the patient
The use of godified technology in the doctor/sick person relationship greatly clouds the relationship, dehumanizes it. The doctor/sick person relationship should be essentially a human relationship, aided by all the technology necessary for diagnosis and treatment, but always with the human sense first and foremost. The patient should feel protected and understood by a close and warm health personnel. There are many complaints from patients against the incorrect and dominant presence of technology in the medical act:
- Doctors who are fixed at the computer writing down data without looking at the patient while taking the medical history.
- Interference of cell phones in the medical act itself.
- Receptionist’s telephone attention while talking to the patient, etc.
Affectivity and human warmth in healthcare personnel
So much so that a professor of medicine committed to the humanity of classical patient care refers with astonishment to the following farewell from a grateful patient:
“Doctor, you have been the only doctor in a long time to visit me while looking away from the computer and without interruptions from the cell phone.”
Humane treatment is healing in essence. A patient who feels the human warmth in the health personnel is a patient who will heal more easily for sure. Plato said that the human being is soul and body, body and soul. An indivisible unity. It is therefore deplorable that the machine has come between the doctor and the patient in the way it has, subjecting the medical act to the dictatorship of technology.
Humanitarian education at Ilzarbe Dental Clinic
Aware of this serious situation, our clinic has imposed to its staff the humanitarian education for the realization of the medical act and the affective treatment towards the patient. We are a clinic where we apply self-discipline over technology so that the health personnel at all times give the patient the human warmth in the treatment, always using technology for the correct diagnosis and treatment, of course, but giving priority to humanitarian action which is what truly cures the disease.
Close treatment and affection for the patient at Clínica Ilzarbe
You will be able to feel at home in Ilzarbe Clinic, you will get at all times the familiar warmth in the treatment by all our staff from the moment you enter our facilities until the moment you walk out the door. It is our priority objective at Clínica Ilzarbe: The close treatment and the warmth and affection towards the patient. This has always been the essence of the very special healthcare profession and should never be lost.Clínica Ilzarbe in Valencia since 1982 with you!
“Make your dental visit an experience, not a treatment.”
Dr. Luis Maria Ilzarbe – Member Nº 46000921: Medical Director and Founder of the Ilzarbe Clinic.
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