The Meaning Of Healing: Transcending Suffering
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Suffering, meaning, and healing: challenges of contemporary medicine.
This essay explores the thesis that changes in contemporary society have transformed the work of doctoring and challenge doctors to be physician-healers. Medical advances in the prevention and management of acute disease have wrought a growing population of chronically ill patients whose care obliges physicians to become holistic healers. Holistic healing involves the transcendence of suffering...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Family Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1544-1709,1544-1717
DOI: 10.1370/afm.313