Netflix Documentary Series
“In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means,
and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding,
Proverbs 3:13 (NIV)
There is a new Netflix series, “Diagnosis” that uses the power of social media to bring hope and healing. It is a powerful documentary of healing using a new means of healing that complements the traditional. It is a search for medical wisdom.
So what about the components of the search of this healing process? An essential component is the relational nature of the process. Healing happens in the context of others. It does not exist as an end without the presence of others. There is an integrity of the healing intent and the outcome.
Medically, we always try to identify the costs of the means as well as the intended outcome. We will rescind treatments that are worse than the disease. We make healing promises, it is the reason we take oaths.
Healing means and ends are part of our communal lives. This is the basis of the trust that is essential in the relational nature of our quest for healing. You will see these lived stories in the wonderful series “Diagnosis”.
Thanks,
Marvin
References:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “The Trumpet of Conscience”, p.59, Beacon Press
Diagnosis, from the New York Times
Ranard, B. L., Ha, Y. P., Meisel, Z. F., Asch, D. A., Hill, S. S., Becker, L. B., … Merchant, R. M. (2014). Crowdsourcing--harnessing the masses to advance health and medicine, a systematic review. Journal of general internal medicine, 29(1), 187–203. doi:10.1007/s11606-013-2536-8
Hage, M. L. (2016). The Search for Healing.
Hage, M. L. (2017). Healing Covenant.
Imber, J. B. (2008). Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine (1 ed.). Princeton University Press.
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