Keywords
Health Personnel
Principle-Based Ethics
Qualitative Research
Health Communication
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Abstract
Social media has become an ambiguous space for healthcare professionals, oscillating between educational potential and the ethical risks of misinformation. This theoretical reflection study aimed to understand, considering Martin Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology, the ontological foundation of the duty of care in digital health communication. Through an interpretative literature review of the PubMed, SciELO, and Google Scholar databases, the study articulates the Dasein analytical framework to argue that the professional is launched into a digital world as a being-of-care (Sorge). The results reveal that each online act is a way of unveiling this being, which can occur authentically (as a care project) or inauthentically (as decadence in the anonymity of networks). It concludes that ethical responsibility emerges from the very structure of the professional being, representing a call to authenticity. Training should therefore promote ontological self-reflection, enabling professionals to act on networks not as ordinary users, but as beings whose existence is, in itself, care.
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