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.
During the Integrative Oncology Leadership Collaborative, the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center team focused on addressing health care disparities among cancer patients by planning group medical visits, beginning work to offer patient resources in Spanish, and working to make integrative medicine accessible to more cancer patients. The team moved toward offering integrative oncology.
During the Integrative Oncology Leadership Collaborative, the Inova Schar Cancer Institute team began to shift the focus from disease-specific care to whole person care by piloting the Personal Health Inventory (PHI) in one clinic and using this as an opportunity to better understand patients’ integrative care needs from day one.
Whole person primary care is just good medicine. It is person-centered, relationship-based care, and it takes into account the social, spiritual, emotional, and behavioral aspects of health as well as…