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oapen-20.500.12657-310982021-11-12T16:37:18Z Chapter 4 Compassion in primary and community healthcare Hordern, Joshua community healthcare primary healthcare compassion community healthcare primary healthcare compassion Decision-making General practitioner Shared Experience bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems & services::MBPK Mental health services Compassion is an attribute of a person’s affective understanding, which aims to enable, so far as possible, shared experiences of the world’s ills and some alleviation of those ills’ effects. Such an attribute is thus of great value within healthcare institutions such as general practices and other primary and community healthcare settings. It may characterise the people who participate in those institutions; or, it may not so characterise them. The appearance of compassion, under certain conditions and even in fragile and incomplete forms, is a kind of human excellence, a way of being for the good in community.* Compassion is not, therefore, a commodity, to be bought, sold and traded. Although time can be costed, there is no line for compassion in any budget. Were compassion to be thought a commodity, one could imagine trading it off against some more measurable factor (efficiency, cost-effectiveness, etc.). However, our human capacity for compassion, though fragile, tends to resist such marginalisation and reductionism. 2019-10-21 11:51:52 2020-04-01T13:23:47Z 2017-10-30 23:55 2019-10-21 11:51:52 2020-04-01T13:23:47Z 2017-09-01 23:55:55 2019-10-21 11:51:52 2020-04-01T13:23:47Z 2020-04-01T13:23:47Z 2017 chapter 638771 OCN: 1030817961 9781315155487 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31098 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 638771.pdf Taylor & Francis Handbook of Primary Care Ethics CRC Press 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 96720a40-e731-4da3-ba14-79a6508bcfd9 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 2563df2a-9f16-4497-bcd0-27e5a71df323 9781315155487 Wellcome CRC Press 8 1 105605 AH/N009770/1 Wellcome Trust Wellcome Arts and Humanities Research Council AHRC open access
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Compassion is an attribute of a person’s affective understanding, which aims to enable, so far as possible, shared experiences of the world’s ills and some alleviation of those ills’ effects.
Such an attribute is thus of great value within healthcare institutions such as general practices
and other primary and community healthcare settings. It may characterise the people
who participate in those institutions; or, it may not so characterise them. The appearance
of compassion, under certain conditions and even in fragile and incomplete forms, is a kind
of human excellence, a way of being for the good in community.* Compassion is not, therefore,
a commodity, to be bought, sold and traded. Although time can be costed, there is no
line for compassion in any budget. Were compassion to be thought a commodity, one could
imagine trading it off against some more measurable factor (efficiency, cost-effectiveness, etc.).
However, our human capacity for compassion, though fragile, tends to resist such marginalisation
and reductionism.
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