Opening Editorial - The Importance of the Humanities in Medical Education

The world of healthcare is changing. As we look through the lens of a bio-psycho-social approach to healthcare we are frequently amazed at the speed of growth of the science behind the subject and the new innovations that occur in technological support and operative procedures, almost on a daily basis. Our social approach to healthcare is rapidly undergoing such change. We see the rise of patients (the e-patient (Riggare, 2018)) coming into healthcare, already equipped with the information about possible diagnoses and their treatment and looking for confirmatory evidence of what they feel should be next steps in their management. Whilst we are still in control, sometimes we feel that only happens when we can justify our actions from evidence-based research.