Rural health care presents unique challenges and opportunities that require thoughtful approaches. As clinicians, we can make significant impacts on rural health outcomes by considering patients' whole health—body, mind, and spirit. Understanding Rural Health Care…
Discover how meaningful support from family, friends, and community can ease the burden of illness and caregiving. Learn how platforms like CaringBridge help organize help, share updates, and foster healing through connection.
The Purchaser Business Group on Health has been working on an effort to guide the business world on how to best support their employees and family members with cancer.
Early in my military medical career, I gained a deeper understanding of what true healing really involves
As health care professionals, we frequently encounter patients with complex medical histories. However, treating U.S. military veterans with cancer presents a unique set of challenges that often necessitate a specialized approach. Having been a U.S…
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is extremely common. Experienced by 30%-60% of our patient with cancer during treatment, CRF can last for months or years for 20%-30% of patients.1-3 This is no ordinary tired feeling: cancer-related fatigue…
As a practicing family physician in the military health system, Wayne Jonas, MD, used to ignore his own wellbeing to spend more time caring for—and connecting with—his patients. He rarely got enough sleep or took breaks…
When Wayne B. Jonas, MD, started practicing medicine in 1981, he was the only physician responsible for two entire battalions and their families – about 4,000 people. He learned quickly how to deliver person-centered, relationship-based…
Uncovering what matters Whole person health has come a long way. When we first developed the Personal Health Inventory (PHI), this tool was revolutionary. Asking patients about what mattered in their lives? Considering what brought…
An excerpt from Healing and Cancer: A Guide to Whole Person Care If you've never (until reading Healing and Cancer) heard of the Personal Health Inventory (PHI) as a tool or the HOPE visit as…
