Suffering, meaning, and healing: Challenges of contemporary medicine

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 170-175

  Egnew, Thomas R ^a,b  

^a Tacoma Family Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Healing; Physician patient Relations; Stress, psychological; Suffering

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXPERIENCE; FAMILY MEDICINE; HEALING; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; REVIEW; SKILL; SUFFERING;

EID: 66249114649     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.943     Document Type: Review

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