The U.S. healthcare system tends to focus more on not dying rather than truly living, but the origins of healing lie in reducing human suffering.
Medicine should rethink its culture surrounding the avoidance of death.Death is promised to all of us, but only some of us will truly live.
Our current model of medicine is almost exclusively focused on treating illness rather than people. In this model, survival in its purest form becomes the only goal post or desired outcome. And thus, we treat patients rather than heal them.of what the healing power of medicine can offer, but it is also inconsistent with the heart and origins of medicine.
This approach is tied inextricably to medical training’s focus on treating a disease without much consideration of how it will impact a person’s ability to live. This is grounded in an extremely noble cause, which is to value human life and save it at all costs. But it fails to consider how high those costs can be.
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