Humane medicine - compassion with competent care

Compassion is a core value of all healthcare practice and needs to be re-affirmed in training and practice.  There is a duty to pay special attention to deprived groups: the poor, the mentally ill, the disabled and the elderly. Another core value that needs to be encouraged is creativity in healthcare practice and planning and using the arts to make the care of the sick more humane.

1. Maintaining and developing our innate compassion in professional practice 
    
2. Paying special attention to deprived groups that may be subject to poor medical care.
    
3. Encourage creativity in healthcare practice and planning
    
4. Using the arts to make the care of the sick more humane

Journal of holistic healthcare   Healing spaces May 2008

Key artcle  Medicine and the healing profession.  ( vol 5 issue 4 p19)

Holistic Health - Integrating CAM