Abstract

Whoever suffers interprets their pain and incorporates it in a meaningful story. Consequently, understanding others’ pain entails fusing together personal horizons, as when reading a text. Medical humanities play an important role in palliative care education: they focus our emotional intelligence, allowing us to discern meaning in a dilemma and assess it ethically. In particular, good-quality cinema can open up entirely new viewpoints in its descriptions of reality and professionals’ sense of their own identity