**1. Introduction**

The advent of modernity and its values into the philosophy of medicine had begun years before I became a nurse. In fact, I entered this major during the period of positivist revision. Yet, like many of my colleagues, I became a nurse with a positivist viewpoint. Fully confiding in western medicines, treatments and their effectiveness for all patients, I entered the hospital as an emergency ward nurse. However, the more I worked on patients, the more I noticed the differences between people and their disease impressionability. As a nurse, I was more focused on the patient himself and found that each patient perceives the disease in his own way. Accordingly, the burden and severity of the disease were different from patient to patient, but what caught my attention the most was their negative feelings about the experience of being hospitalized. Something more than illness seemed to bother them. I had heard them saying many times: "Do not see me falling on this bed, I was someone for myself." I do not know what was going on with them that they needed to remind us of their identity.

The turning point of all these thoughts was my hospitalization as a patient. I was admitted to the hospital where I worked. I had an independent identity there as a nurse, and I was in a friendly environment, so I thought it was the best place to get cured. But in a moment, after wearing the patients' uniform and with my first encounter with nurses, I lost all my identity. The illness had devoured not only my health but also my identity. Although familiar with all the concepts of care and treatment, I was not involved in treatment decisions. I was just a patient and only the doctors' and nurses' decisions were given to me. At the end of the first day of hospitalization, I was so full of negative and disturbing feelings that the disease was thoroughly forgotten. The health care provider's behaviors had a different story. They considered me someone who could not properly take care of herself and consequently got ill. While I was their colleague and knew all about the procedures and I was not afraid of them, I was blamed many times why I had not come earlier. I put myself in the shoes of patients who did not have my knowledge and realized what an unsafe and stressful place (hospital) they stepped in. Afterward, I reviewed that experience many times in my mind, and each time I felt the same sorrow. My feelings for myself as a nurse had changed.

With this concern and in search of a way to make the experience of hospitalization and illness lighter, I focused my studies on this area. Owing to my familiarity with philosophical concepts and philosophy of medicine, I realized how much I was entertained by the physiology of organism and body, and we are unaware of patients' cultural beliefs and values and their effects on determining the level of health and the type of people's experiences of health. Similarly, we have substituted the global standard treatment protocols for paying attention to patients' social status and cultural-historical and identity characteristics. The result is considering patients' identities based on their illness, such as epileptic patients or cancer patients. More painfully, the teachings are focused on the same principles [1].

However, in recent decades, the inefficiency of such an attitude has become more apparent and patients' dissatisfaction with the way services are provided, its coincidence with the customer-oriented issues and competition among medical centers has been an inauguration to criticize the biomedical model more than ever [2].
