Humanities and the Health Professional

A Professor jock Murray from Dalhousie Medical School in Canada writes about the role of humanities in the education of health professionals. In a recent meeting with health professionals from many disciplines, the concept of the humanities and how they enrich the lives and practice of physicians was discussed. There were nurses, chiropractors, speech therapists, health administrators and professionals from a dozen other fields. Everyone commented on the need to achieve a balance between th...