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The Paradox of Mindfulness: Seamus Heaney's ``St Kevin and the Blackbird''
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Myers, K. R.
- 학회/출판사/기관명AMA AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- 출판년도2017
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기JAMA
- 발행사항Vol.318No.5[2017]_x000D_
- ISBN/ISSN0098-7484
- 소개/요약When the acute fatigue of, say, a long weekend on call becomes chronic—a relentless grind of heavy clinics day in and day out, and after-hours charting—even physicians who are earnestly committed to mindful engagement with their patients can lose the ability to stay fully present. In his poem about the sixth-century Irish St Kevin, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney offers an encouraging perspective on mindfulness in the midst of exhaustion.¹ In keeping with his general preference for private moments that reveal something essential about a person’s character, Heaney presents Kevin in this poem less a perfectly pious saint than a humble, warm-hearted man who takes his responsibilities to all living creatures quite—and quietly—seriously. From this vantage point, it is not difficult to draw comparisons between Kevin and any number of physicians who give fully of themselves to those who are entrusted to their care.
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