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Could the medical humanities be a remedy for the rising disengagement between physician and patient?
Author(s) -
Cristóbal Pera,
Manuel Pera
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
mededpublish
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2312-7996
DOI - 10.15694/mep.2018.0000179.1
Subject(s) - dignity , medical humanities , disengagement theory , humanities , curriculum , medicine , psychology , sociology , medical education , pedagogy , philosophy , gerontology , political science , law
This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. The idea of incorporating an interdisciplinary field about the Human Condition of the patient and its intrinsic dignity, under the title of Medical Humanities or simply Humanities into the core curriculum of medical education seems reasonable. We hope it may become a reality as remedy for the difficulties of the doctor-patient relationship in modern medicine, which is extremely technological.

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