Lunchroom Revolution
jamanetwork.comSaved by Emily Silverman, MD
Lunchroom Revolution
Saved by Emily Silverman, MD
Nurses at the front line of acute care also experience inadequate time to address both the patients’ medical needs, which they are trained to do, and their social needs, which they cannot avoid. A veteran pediatrics nurse (ID 21) in Boston described taxing interactions with drug-addicted mothers, who become her patients when their babies are born a
... See moreWithout that space or time of privacy, away from “the implacable bright light of the constant presence of others on the public scene,” there could be no possibility of the nurturing of the singularity of the self, a self that could make a substantive contribution to exchanges about the common good. For Arendt, the private sphere had to be distinct
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