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.
