RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Quiet Healing
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 547
OP 549
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2012.04.110267
VO 25
IS 4
A1 de Schweinitz, Peter A.
YR 2012
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/25/4/547.abstract
AB Both physicians and patients want deeply healing doctor–patient relationships. Too often, though, the ever-expanding demands of medical practice combine with the defenses of the patient to create doctor–patient isolation. Eastern and Western cosmologies and traditions may encourage different approaches to human interaction and healing. At times, probing the patient with more questions may open up a story vital to transformative healing. However, this narrative essay uses a personal experience as a patient of a Japanese traditional healer and Zen practitioner to explore the value of a quiet approach to patient care.