Toward More Compassionate Healthcare Systems; Comment on “Enabling Compassionate Healthcare: Perils, Prospects and Perspectives”

Compassion is central to the purpose of medicine and the care of patients and their families. Compassionate healthcare begins with compassionate people, but cannot be consistently provided without systemic changes that enable clinicians and staff to collaborate and to care. We propose seven essentia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beth A. Lown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2014-05-01
Series:International Journal of Health Policy and Management
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Online Access:http://www.ijhpm.com/pdf_2838_eb9385eac7b3fbf76eb6065928088d1d.html