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Thomas R Cole, Nathan CarlinResource Type
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The Art of Medicine The Suffering of Physicians
This article was published in the Lancet Vol 374 October 24, 2009 and authored by Thomas R Cole, Nathan Carlin from the John P McGovern Center for Health, Humanities, and the
Human Spirit, University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center Medical School, Houston, USA
Thomas.Cole@uth.tmc.edu
It concludes by saying:
“The obligation to care for the patient entails the obligation to care for the self, for when the health of the physician is compromised, is not the quality of patients’ care also compromised? We are just beginning to realise that humanising medicine depends in no small part on recovering the humanity of physicians.”