Doctors, Revolt!

The 96 year old patient lamented that today's hospital is more like a factory.   He told his intern that “healing is replaced with treating, caring is supplanted by managing, and the art of listening is taken over by technological procedures.” 

This is a moving article by Dr. Rich Joseph, a resident at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.  His Op-Ed piece, Doctors Revolt!, published in the Sunday Review of the NY Times is a moving introduction to Lown’s fine book, The Art of healing.  It also chronicles a refresher course in humanistic medicine for Dr. Joseph at a crucial point in his career..

Here are notes from The Lost Art of Healing.