The neglected role of technology in quality of care crisis (original) (raw)

Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine

Abstract

The quality of care crisis (QCC) is one of the most crucial crises the modern medicine is confronting, as the existential and psychological needs of patients have not been addressed and satisfied. Several attempts have been made to find solutions for QCC, e.g., the Marcum's recommendation to make physicians virtuous. Most of the existing formulations for the QCC have regarded technology as one of the causes of this crisis and not part of its solution. Although the authors agree with the role of technology in creatingthe crisis of care to some extent, in this article we try to present thecrisis of care so that medical technology is an important part of itssolution. For this purpose, we analyzed QCC from the philosophicalperspectives of Husserl and Borgmann and put forward a novelproposal to take account of technology in QCC. In the first step, itis discussed that the role of technology in causing the crisis of careis due to the gap between the techno-scientific world and the life...

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