THE PROBLEM OF COMMUNICATION OF "BAD NEWS" THROUGH THE PRISM OF PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERSTANDING OF DEATH
This article is devoted to finding a solution to the problem of delivering bad news in the framework of communication between a doctor and a patient. Due to the fact that in the modern medical community there is a problem associated with the complexity of this type of communication, the author of the article suggests turning to philosophy in order to resolve this problem. According to this study, medicine has deep links with philosophy, rooted in its ethical foundations. Based on the ideas of the German doctor and philosopher K. Dörner, the author argues that medicine not only needs philosophical reflection, but understood as healing, therapy is carried out in care and is a practical philosophy. Thus, following the philosophical concept of P. Ado, and considering philosophy as a way of life, the author turns to stoicism in search of answers to the questions of how to live and die correctly. And he comes to the conclusion that various philosophical practices, the so-called spiritual exercises, can not only help a person realize the essence of life and death and develop the right attitude towards them, but also be applied in medical communication in a situation where a doctor needs to inform a patient about an ambulance. and inevitable death.