Practice of medicineVolume 24, Issue 3
Patients and the art and science of healing
By Ashok Kumar Bhatia - Oct 15, 2016
Besides managing their bodily afflictions, patients have to confront the cold impersonality and crass commercialisation of the healthcare delivery mechanism. New advances in the realm of medicine do give hope but these are mostly futuristic in nature. Besides medicine, exercise and food, the real succour available to patients is in the form of an inner connection with the soul, faith, sincere prayer, a sunnier disposition and some service to those who happen to be less fortunate than them.