When the Spirit Hurts: An Approach to the Suffering Patient

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2429-2432

  Lesho, Emil P ^a,b  

^a Army Medical Department Center and School   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUFFERING;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; HUMANS; PAIN; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0242507548     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.20.2429     Document Type: Review

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