This website is produced to provide a vehicle for communication among all those who have something to share about ministry to the whole person – a body, mid and spirit. Humane Medicine (humanehealthcare.com) is directed toward physicians in the active practice of clinical medicine; however, in recognition that effective health care that will lead to healing requires collaboration with men and women from a wide variety of disciplines and diverse backgrounds – nurses, clergy, administrators and others – the pages of Humane Medicine (humanehealthcare.com) are open to anyone who has something to contribute. Since we believe that the individual patient contributes his or her own healing, we hope to hear the patient’s view through these pages.
Humane Medicine (humanehealthcare.com) was born from the desire of some clinicians to improve themselves and to share the experience of caring, as well as some insights concerning the art of medicine, with the new generation of physicians and other health care workers. As clinicians we have no special competence in the moral, ethical and philosophical bases of human conduct; hence, we look to our colleagues in theology, philosophy, psychology and bioethics for guidance in these areas. A major task of medical education in a modern technologic society is to inculcate, especially in the young, the attitudes that undergird the ministry of humane care. In this inculcation all can play a part. Each of us will earnestly desire such care for our spouse, parents and children, or for ourselves whenever we become ill or otherwise needy.
We believe in the power of the human spirit and of the eternal spirit of which it is
a sign. Humane caring is evidence of that eternal spirit, irrespective of what name an individual gives it.
Humane Medicine (humanehealthcare.com) will respect the faith and uniqueness of each man or woman, and the editors will not use this site to impose on anyone their own creed.
The distribution of Humane Medicine (humanehealthcare.com) is international. We believe that humanity in medical practice is a universal need; paradoxically, it is needed most in areas where technologic development is most advanced.
Humane Medicine (humanehealthcare.com) is becoming an important forum for exchange of ideas among health care professionals who are interested in improving themselves and the type of care they are offering. Through this medium the editors are identifying a network of concerned members of the community. The continuing open dialogue on these pages will, we trust, stimulate the growth of a body of well-informed and politically active citizens who can guide the development of the heath care system. We believe that quality health care is every citizen’s business and that each day each citizen can do something to bring it closer. For this reason each reader is invited to become a stakeholder in the glorious enterprise that is Humane Medicine.