Religious Studies Reflection Essay:
Why do health care providers say they feel ‘called’ to help fight life-threatening diseases?
Subject:
We are living through a pandemic on a global scale. The fight against COVID-19 has occupied the hearts and minds of people everywhere, but perhaps no one has faced the pandemic with more fortitude than frontline health care workers.
This pattern of selfless, lifesaving care has been repeated globally, with health care providers going into ICUs and emergency rooms to offer care to the sick, often at the risk of their own life. Why would anybody do this?
Simply out of the kindness of their heart? Or is there a historical or religious precedent for this philosophy? And if so, is it still relevant to actions taken today?
With this in mind, in anticipation of your first class discussion write a short paper reflecting on the question:
“Why do doctors, nurses, and other health care providers say they feel `called’ to help fight life-threatening diseases?” such as COVID, SIRS (the first one), Ebola, AIDS, etc. Is there an historical explanation for this volunteerism?
Is this idea based on religious concepts that have hung on for thousands of years past the life of a particular religion?
Or is this a return to an idea represented by the updated Hippocratic. Oath, where health care providers swear to look after their fellow human beings because it is simply what humanity is supposed to do?
Focus your answer on evidence from our readings and/or class lectures.
Look back to Suhnasy, discuss his ideas along with the content of Paraceistis’s prayer, and explore both of these in the context of a health care worker who has expressed a motivation to help fight global disease.
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