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House keeping
Poster competition
Introduction to day
Paul Rowlands
Head of School of Psychiatry
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Can we cultivate compassion?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature
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it is from playing the lyre that both good
and bad lyre-players are produced
…is true of builders and of all the rest
For if this were not so, there would have
been no need of a teacher, but all men
would have been born good or bad at
their craft
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Moral virtue (‘ethikearete’) comes about
through habit (‘ethos’)
‘…we become just by doing just acts…’
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It makes no small
difference, then,
whether we form
habits of one kind or
of another from our
very youth; it makes a
very great difference,
or rather all the
differencein the world
(Arisotle 4th Century
BC)
(Aristotle 4th Century BC)
For many patients,
compassionate care
and nursing makes all
the difference
….together the
responses to the
inquiry’s
recommendations seek
to build and
strengthen a culture of
compassionate care.
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Response to Francis 2013
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=play
er_detailpage&v=t0GESlaVNdE
You become good at taking free-kicks by
taking free-kicks
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Personal example
Leadership at every level
Day to day attitudes and behaviour
training programmes
institutions and structures
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Culture
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We become compassionate by doing
compassionate acts
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And working within a culture in which
compassion is expected
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All of us create that culture
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Enjoy the day!