Pursuing Humanistic Medicine in a Technological Age

The humanistic practice of medicine requires that the practitioner have sufficient time and appropriate focus. Both elements, however, are under assault by the high-speed, distraction-filled environment within which primary care is delivered today. Despite or perhaps because of modern medicine’s tec...

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Autor principal: Bertman, Stephen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Case Studies
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5513639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28725861
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374373517699269
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description The humanistic practice of medicine requires that the practitioner have sufficient time and appropriate focus. Both elements, however, are under assault by the high-speed, distraction-filled environment within which primary care is delivered today. Despite or perhaps because of modern medicine’s technological advances, the potentially healing bond between doctor and patient is being frayed and the quality of care consequently degraded.
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spelling pubmed-55136392017-07-19 Pursuing Humanistic Medicine in a Technological Age Bertman, Stephen J Patient Exp Case Studies The humanistic practice of medicine requires that the practitioner have sufficient time and appropriate focus. Both elements, however, are under assault by the high-speed, distraction-filled environment within which primary care is delivered today. Despite or perhaps because of modern medicine’s technological advances, the potentially healing bond between doctor and patient is being frayed and the quality of care consequently degraded. SAGE Publications 2017-05-09 2017-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5513639/ /pubmed/28725861 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374373517699269 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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