Rural health is about more than overcoming challenges. It’s about harnessing unique strengths: deep community ties, restorative natural settings, and a culture of resilience. Whole person care empowers patients and clinicians to build health and healing together, honoring the mind, body, and spirit. This guide focuses on strategies to implement whole person care in rural settings.
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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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…
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…
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…
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In health care, if you do not name and document a problem or a process, it remains invisible. It might as well be nothing. The biggest problem we have for…
With chronic illness, medical treatment alone is only responsible for up to 20% of improvement. The other 80% comes from lifestyle, behavior, and environmental causes outside the doctor’s office. We…
The Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is a community cancer center that delivers hands-on, personalized care and advanced medicine to the Lancaster community. The cancer institute supports the mind, body, and spirit of patients and their families.