Decisions

Abstract

Every society shares history and traditions. Certain atavisms underlie our perceptions, creating philias and phobias that our reason rejects. The work of the health professional is based on scientific criteria, but sometimes it cannot avoid the emergence of cultural prejudices. Sometimes these prejudices trivialize the suffering of patients, other times they minimize the importance of a family crisis or symptoms that do not fit into a medical entity. The key to personalized care is to enter the patient's world and assume his perspective of the world without judgement. This often means leaving our comfort zone.