Patients Are Our Teachers
In the patient-physician encounter, physicians hone their skills while alleviating the patient’s suffering. Both benefit. Leaning on the work of Hippocrates, Darwin, and William Osler, the authors sketch out the case for honoring patients as indispensable teachers of the art and science of medicine....
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Advocate Aurora Health
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| description | In the patient-physician encounter, physicians hone their skills while alleviating the patient’s suffering. Both benefit. Leaning on the work of Hippocrates, Darwin, and William Osler, the authors sketch out the case for honoring patients as indispensable teachers of the art and science of medicine. They argue that this tradition of Hippocratic medicine both anticipates modern precision medicine and reawakens a focus on public health medicine, each a benefit to the patients and communities served by physicians. A community that compromises the learning relationship of physician to patient and population undermines quality of care. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-45bf0083bc6b4c01a6ea660a4429b4da2023-02-02T21:51:09ZengAdvocate Aurora HealthJournal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews2330-06982018-04-015218318610.17294/2330-0698.1589Patients Are Our TeachersRobert E. Becker0Mary V. Seeman1National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MDUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaIn the patient-physician encounter, physicians hone their skills while alleviating the patient’s suffering. Both benefit. Leaning on the work of Hippocrates, Darwin, and William Osler, the authors sketch out the case for honoring patients as indispensable teachers of the art and science of medicine. They argue that this tradition of Hippocratic medicine both anticipates modern precision medicine and reawakens a focus on public health medicine, each a benefit to the patients and communities served by physicians. A community that compromises the learning relationship of physician to patient and population undermines quality of care.https://digitalrepository.aurorahealthcare.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1589&context=jpcrrpatient-physician relationshipHippocratesDarwinOslerpublic health |
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