The Meaning Of Healing: Transcending Suffering
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- 1 May 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 3 (3) , 255-262
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.313
Abstract
PURPOSE Medicine is traditionally considered a healing profession, but it has neither an operational definition of healing nor an explanation of its mechanisms beyond the physiological processes related to curing. The objective of this study was to determine a definition of healing that operationalizes its mechanisms and thereby identifies those repeatable actions that reliably assist physicians to promote holistic healing.Keywords
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