How Hospitals Can Help Patients Heal by Reducing Noise
While I am most comfortable being the doctor in the patient-doctor encounter, I recently had the tables turned during a three-day stay at the hospital while recovering from a burst…
A Look Into My Wife’s Response to Cancer
My wife, Susan, has experienced five types of cancer in her life—breast, melanoma, basal cell, and squamous cell and we have always been very different in our responses to it…
Look Beyond the SOAP Note
As a primary care provider, I’ve found that the SOAP note is too narrow to effectively grasp the causes of and approaches needed for many of the conditions I see – conditions like chronic pain, obesity, diabetes and hypertension.
How to Do Whole Person Care in Rural Areas
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…
Whole Person Care in Rural Areas
Twenty percent of Americans live in rural areas. Rural Americans have an average age of 43 compared to 36 for urban residents and have higher rates of chronic diseases like…
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Whole person care – meeting the needs of patients beyond killing their cancer cells – has drawn the attention of leaders in oncology. From the National Academies of Medicine’s Delivering…
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Restoring Joy in Medicine through Whole Person Team-Based Care
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…
Group Medical Visits: How can this model support clinicians and patients financially, emotionally and physically?
Send us a Text Message. SummaryDr. Jeff Geller discusses the use of group medical visits as a treatment for loneliness and a way to provide healthcare in underserved areas. He…
You Already Know How to Do Whole Person Care
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…