What is Whole Person Primary Care
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 the environment in which the person lives.
To be effective, whole person care must use an integrative approach that coordinates the delivery of evidence-based conventional medical care, complementary medicine, and lifestyle medicine within a primary care practice.
Incorporating a whole person approach into mainstream primary care practices enables physicians, nurses, and other health care providers to:
- Deliver higher quality advanced primary care.
- Improve patient outcomes and satisfaction.
- Lower costs.
- Reduce burnout.
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How does whole person care work in practice?
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Written by Alyssa McManamon, MD, and Wayne Jonas, MD, “Healing and Cancer: A Guide to Whole Person Cancer Care” will be published by Rodin Books in April 2024
“Healing and Cancer” is intended to be read and actively used by teams caring for people with cancer and by caregivers and patients themselves to enhance healing, health, and wellbeing. “Healing and Cancer” directs readers to the best tools and resources available so that oncologists, primary clinicians, nurses, social workers, integrative practitioners, cancer care teams, and patients with cancer can incorporate whole person care into their own healing journey.