Examples Of Unprejudiced Observation

In my opinion unprejudiced observation means careful and detail observation that is not influence by or based on my personal beliefs, opinions or the knowledge. Unprejudiced observation is not what I think I am seeing but it is what I am actually seeing without any prejudices. Let me demonstrate it. Look at the picture below.
If I were to describe the picture I would say that I see a romantic couple standing on a shore, under old weird looking tree, watching a beautiful sunset and admiring scenery. Also, if I were to look long enough and more carefully I would notice an infant in it. This is where my prejudice took over. First of all I assumed that the couple on the picture is a romantic couple, but they in a fact might be siblings looking at the lake or parents watching their child swimming. Here I used my personal believes to described something without knowing the actual facts. Secondly, I failed to notice picture hidden in the picture. I failed to notice hidden meaning behind the surface. I failed to

notice some very important element of that picture. Once again I was guided by my personal opinion and not paying to much attention to the presented facts.
If I were to transfer this situation to the clinical settings, I must say, I failed terribly. I let my prejudice to guide the case and distorted the true picture of the disease. I assumed something that may not be a true description of the case and I failed to notice something that in fact may have had very important value to the case.

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Samuel Hahnemann in the “Organon” in aphorism six talks about it. He tells us that to truly understand the disease and to successfully treat and cure the patient, we must look at the sickness through the eyes of an unprejudiced observer. In his belief the unprejudiced observer is someone who sees the disease only as a “state of disorder” which manifests entirely as externally visible signs and symptoms that are felt by the patient, noted by family members and observed by the physician. Nothing more. Dr. Hahnemann warns us that the disease never comes from or is cause by tissue changes inside the body and therefore we should never look for it there. The hidden morbid condition within is for a fact the result of the disease not its cause. Observe without prejudices-he says, notice the changes that occur in the patient physical and mental state and pay close attention to sign and symptoms because they are the only true representation of the

disease.