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Thursday Review: “Getting Personal: Can Systems Medicine Integrate Scientific and Humanistic Conceptions of the Patient?”

In medicine, just like in other disciplines, there is a distinction between “art” and “science”. A line is drawn between the humanistic and data, between subjective and objective, between mind and body, and what is personal and what is verifiable. In the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice Henrik Vogt et al. want to answer […]

January 24, 2019By meaningwell Thursday Review Denis Noble, depersonalization, emergent behavior, Eric J. Cassell, meaning, medical humanities, medically unexplained symptoms, multi-morbidity, subjective data, symbol, systems biology, systems medicine, time, wholeness

Thursday Review: “The Meaning Of Healing: Transcending Suffering”

I enjoy work like Thomas R. Egnew’s article, published in The Annals of Family Medicine. Egnew asks a simple but profound question, and the answers open up new avenues for understanding the role storytelling plays in a medical relationship. If healing is a part of medicine, why is there no operational definition of healing, nor […]

March 29, 2018By meaningwell Personal, Thursday Review empathy, healing, holistic healing, isolation, meaning, patient-centered care, reconciliation, spirituality, suffering, transcendence, wholeness