Humanity in Healthcare Shouldn’t Be an Oxymoron
Fact checked by Jim Lacy Humanity in healthcare, in the United States at least, feels like an oxymoron. Is that because we expect more honoring and better tending from a field, medicine, focused on keeping humans well? Yet, inherent in doctor visits is threat. Will something be discovered that will devastate me physically, psychologically, familialy, […]
Health Mastery
Prescription: A Dose of Compassion By Kathleen Aharoni Recently, Louis Weiss, publisher of this magazine, sent me a YouTube video from the Cleveland Clinic, entitled Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care. This emotional video begins with the following quote from Henry David Thoreau: “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look […]
