Frontiers in Medicine
Exploring the qualities and adaptive professional capabilities required of physicians for disaster response through perspective transformation among physicians in Fukushima, Japan
Background The Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident confronted health care professionals with profound uncertainty and ethical dilemmas. However, it remains unclear how physicians made sense of these extreme experiences, reconsidered their assumptions, values and professional roles, and came to recognize and embody the qualities and adaptive professional capabilities required for disaster response. Aim Through the narratives of physicians in Fukushima, Japan, this study …