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One of the greatest challenges facing medical students today, apart from absorbing volumes of technical information and learning habits of scientific thought, is that of remaining empathetic to the needs of patients in the face of all this rigorous training. █████████ ████████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ██████████ ██ ███████ ██████████ █████ █████████████ ████ ████ ███ ████████ ███ ███████ ███████ ██ ██████████ ███ ████ ████████ ██████████ ████████ ██ ████████████ ███ █████████ ████ ██████ ███████ █████████ ███

Problem · How to train medical students to be empathetic?

They can't just be immersed in textbooks and science. They need to be connected to patients to be empathetic and ethical.

(Proposed) Solution · Learn ethics using narrative literature

Unclear what this means at the moment but presumably the rest of the passage will flesh this out.

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Status Quo · Training in abstract philosophical ethics

Critique · Fails to provide understanding of everyday human experience

Solution · Use narrative literature to understand wide variety of human relationships

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Solution Mechanics · Flexible ethical thinking; adopt other people's perspectives

Reading narrative literature helps to develop ability to empathize; discourages absolute strict moral rules.

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Caveat · Flexible does not mean relativistic

There are still moral principles. Using narrative literature threads the needle between two moral extremes: dogmatically absolutist and extremely relativistic.

Conclusion · Narrative literature better than traditional ethics training

Provides a deeper understanding of human nature and a more flexible application of moral principles.

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This is stated in P4. Here, we see that using narrative literature in ethical education avoids extreme relativism.

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This is stated in P2. Here, we see that ethics courses based on narrative literature are beneficial because literature connects students to various types of human events.

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This is stated in P1. Here, we see that ethical training based on narrative literature can help aspiring physicians develop new ways of dealing with patients.

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This is stated in P3. Here, we see that studying literature demands that readers examine moral issues from new perspectives.

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