What is humanistic medicine?
Humanism in medicine fosters relationships with patients and other caregivers that are compassionate and empathic. It also describes attitudes and behaviors that are sensitive to values, autonomy, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Arnold P. Gold Foundation — TAMPA – Jose Lezama herds a team of young doctors in starched white lab coats into the room of a leukemia patient. On the way, Lezama has quizzed them, testing their memories on technical protocol for acute leukemia. But as they enter the room, he wants them to see the other side of medicine. Lezama sits down on the bed. He tells the patient he wants to check his lungs. The patient – 74-year-old Angel Reyes – sits up, takes a deep breath, and bellows: Be my love. And with your kisses set me burning. One kiss is all I need to seal my fate. Lezama lowers his stethoscope. Nothing wrong with Angel Reyes’ lungs. End of Lesson 2. – – – Lesson 1 is Lezama’s office. It’s at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center, where Lezama is chief of me
