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Compassion fatigue: does the duty to care have limits?
Night shifts and Epictetus: the dichotomy of control in a care home
Do I see that an old woman is being humiliated, or do I infer it? Moral perception on a night shift
Who speaks for someone who cannot? Advance directives, surrogates and the family at three in the morning
“I could have caught it sooner”: what is a carer’s regret actually claiming?
Why a sad film consoles where good advice doesn’t
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- Does anger ever help? Seneca’s On Anger versus Aristotle
At work, the most effective colleagues in a crisis are never angry in the moment. They might be furious afterwards, and that fury gets the incident report written and the protocol changed. Maybe Senec…
- Patients who pray: faith, placebo, and respect at the bedside
The best staff I've worked with ask open questions: "What does your faith say about this?" Often the person's faith doesn't actually forbid treatment, they just haven't c…
- Camus begins with suicide. Was he right to start there?
Working nights in care, I'd say Camus is right that the question isn't abstract for some people. But when someone is actually in that place, philosophy is the wrong first response. Being wit…
- What is the actual difference between Pyrrhonian and Academic sceptics?
Sextus has an answer, and it is better than people expect. The Pyrrhonian does not live by beliefs about how things really are; he lives by appearances. He lists four guides: nature, which gives us pe…
- Did the Stoics really think all emotions are bad?
Giulia, the "first movements" explain why Seneca can say he wept for a friend without contradicting himself. I'll go back to the letters with this in mind.