DASAR PELAYANAN TENAGA MEDIS BAGI PASIEN COVID-19 SEBAGAI ETIKA TANGGUNG JAWAB MENURUT EMMANUEL LEVINAS
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https://doi.org/10.30996/jhmo.v5i1.5777Abstract
Abstract
The focus of this study is to analyze the services of medical personnel for Covid-19 patients in the framework of Emmanuel Levinas' responsibility ethics. The total service they have been providing is an ethical consequence of their encounter with the faces of Covid-19 patients as the Others. This could happen because the faces of Covid-19 patients show their nakedness as weak human beings. Moreover, this responsibility is also the impact of the awareness that the Others’ faces bear the imprint of the Infinite One. Here, Covid-19 patients have become means of the Infinite One giving commands to serve to medical personnel. This encounter in turn has succeeded in transcending medical personnel in their responsibility for Covid-19 patients. The methodology used in this study is a critical reading of news items in Kompas daily of April 26, 2020, and in Tempo magazine, edition of January 3, 2021, regarding the total service of medical personnel. These news items were then elaborated according to Emmanuel Levinas' philosophy of responsibility ethics. The findings of this study are that the responsibility of medical personnel for Covid-19 patients is an ethical consequence of their encounter with the patients’ faces.
Keywords: Covid-19 patients; medical personnel; the others responsibility
Abstrak
Fokus penelitian ini pada analisis pelayanan tenaga medis terhadap pasien Covid-19 dalam terang filsafat etika tanggung jawab Emmanuel Levinas. Pelayanan total yang diberikan tenaga medis merupakan konsekuensi etis dari perjumpaan mereka dengan wajah pasien Covid-19. Hal ini terjadi karena pasien Covid-19 menampakan wajah ketelanjangan sebagai manusia yang lemah yang membutuhkan pelayanan. Oleh karena itu, perjumpaan ini melahirkan tanggung jawab pelayanan tenaga medis bahwa pasien Covid-19 sebagai Yang-Lain yang memuat jejak Tak-Terbatas. Dengan kata lain, kehadiran pasien Covid-19 memberi perintah kepada tenaga medis untuk memberi pelayanan. Perjumpaan ini pada gilirannya mentransendensikan tenaga medis untuk bertanggung jawab secara penuh dengan pasien Covid-19. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini berupa pembacaan kritis atas fenomena pelayanan tenaga medis yang dimuat dalam pemberitaan surat kabar harian Kompas edisi 26 April 2020 dan majalah Tempo edisi 3 Januari 2021. Penelitian ini dielaborasi dalam filsafat etika tanggung jawab Emmanuel Levinas. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa tanggung jawab tenaga medis terhadap pasien Covid-19 merupakan konsekuensi etis dari perjumpaan mereka dengan penderitaan pasien.
Kata kunci: etika tanggung jawab; pasien Covid-19; tenaga medis
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