The Mona Lisa is known to be a master piece and priceless, literally no insurance company can place a value on this piece of art, yet some believe the painting was left incomplete because of the lack of eyebrows and eyelashes on her. The perfect example of an imperfect perfection in today’s society. Some believe the lack of her facial her and her pin point eyes left her expressionless, yet others believes they can see their own feelings reflect on her expression.
Being a student in the health profession, you have to constantly think about ethics and professionalism with each patient. We have to be friendly and kind within the appropriate limit, taking into consideration the humanity side of the patient and not just the clinical mystery of signs and symptoms presented. We have to be in neutral zone while performing our daily task, no matter who or what the patients present with or like, we have to treat each patient with the exact same morals and dignity. Which is a challenge on its own along with all the normal student life challenges.
This is where the Mona Lisa inspired me. Some believe she doesn’t have any expressions on her face and others believe they see their own expressions on her face. We as the health care workers have to have a poker face when working with patients, we cannot wear our emotions and feelings towards a specific situation or person on our faces. Although this is sometimes difficult, leaving your feelings behind when working on a patient, therefore it could be possible for the patient to see their reactions of their situations or surroundings on your face even though you believe you have your Mona-Lisa-no-expression mask on.
We are helping individuals in the communities by influencing their health, we are trying to stay calm even when there is a storm of conflicting morals and emotions within ourselves, we are multi-tasking by listening, thinking, doing and explaining, we are humans trying to see underneath a person’s skin, we are trying to be the hope for a hopeless condition. We are physiotherapist of the communities, and we are imperfect perfections.
References
Puchko, K. (2015, April 1). 14 things you didn’t know about the Mona Lisa. Retrieved from Mental Floss: http://mentalfloss.com/article/62280/14-things-you-didnt-know-about-mona-lisa
Vinci, L. D. (1797). The Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa . Louvre Musuem , Paris .
Reflection
In the small amount of practical experience I have had, I was in quite a few different situations where I had to put my personal feelings second and wear my Mona-Lisa-no-expression mask. To clarify a few; I was treating a male patients who came for physiotherapy just to be touched by someone because he believed that ‘massage’ or the touch of another person will heal his pain. Another situation was where I had to treat a few prisoners, the treatment session itself was not the problem but the thoughts of what this person did to become a prisoner was what bothered me. The last example of my situations is where a patient came in for chronic pain therapy and threatened to take his own life if I do not help him to reduce his pain he is currently feeling. Throughout all of these situations I was calm and professional on the outside giving each patient my full attention and capabilities to treat them but on the inside I personally was either judging that person, freaking out because of my surrounds or because of what the patient is telling me or I just wished the time would pass by more quickly so our paths could part. I know I have to up hold all ethical policies with all types of patients but feelings and thoughts that are unspoken are harmless to the patient, but it could be potent to the therapist. Therefore we have to create an invisible barrier between the patient and their surrounds and your own personal self by putting up that Mona-Lisa-no-expression mask to become imperfect perfections.
4 thoughts on “Wiana Muller 3680208: The Mona Lisa in the eyes of the therapist”
CONTENT: Excellent
– Does the essay reflect the module content so far? Absolutely, it covers almost every aspect of the module.
– Is it aligned with class discussion? Yes.
ARGUMENT: satisfactory
Are claims made? Are the claims supported with evidence? Are reasons given for claims?
-Your claims are absolutely spot on, and you backed them with very good corroboration .However we were required to use at least one piece of evidence to further substantiate whatever claim we make. but in generally your argument is good and it is certainly convincing. I just rated it as satisfactory objectively as there is just one thing missing and that is a piece of reference.
References: Poor
Are they present? Correctly formatted?
-As aforementioned, the only missing thing is this great piece of writing is references
Writing: Excellent
Is the writing grammatically correct? Are there spelling mistakes? Does the text flow logically?
– You made few grammar errors like in the 2nd sentence under reflection ” I was quite a few different situations”. otherwaise, the spelling and the logical flow is on point.
Hello Andile
Thank you for the good comments. I will absolutely take everything into consideration and especially add some references and correct my grammar error.
Hi Wiana, I have enjoyed reading your reflection and interpretation of the monalisa painting, great job. I will therefore proceed to comment according to the rubric.
CONTENT: Excellent, your assigment reflects the content of the module.
ARGUMENT: Excellent , your arguments are valid.
References: Satisfactory
Writing: Excellent, your writing is professional, as mentioned above. you would want to look at those grammatical errors.
great read though, keep up the great work.
1. Excellent: The essay reflects the content of professional ethics well, and it’s something I agree with and once experienced as well. It is a very good point to make.
2. Excellent: I think the argument is good and on point. It talks about the reality of clinical practise.
3. Do not forget to reference.