Healing and palliative care: charting our way forward
B Mount - Palliative Medicine, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
Healing and palliative care: charting our way forward Page 1 Editorial Healing and palliative
care: charting our way forward Healing has been defined as a relational process involving
movement towards an experience of integrity and wholeness, which may be facilitated by a
caregiver’s interventions but is dependent on an innate potential within the patient.It is not
dependant on the presence of, or the capacity for, physical well being.Indeed, it is possible to
die healed. In contrast to the familiar Hippocratic approach where therapeutic change is …
care: charting our way forward Healing has been defined as a relational process involving
movement towards an experience of integrity and wholeness, which may be facilitated by a
caregiver’s interventions but is dependent on an innate potential within the patient.It is not
dependant on the presence of, or the capacity for, physical well being.Indeed, it is possible to
die healed. In contrast to the familiar Hippocratic approach where therapeutic change is …