News Item – Doctors should help patients fight disease and treat their well-being, too, according to medical journal essay

An essay in the British Medical Journal urges doctors and patients to start thinking differently about what it means to be returned to health.

Ian Hargraves, lead author of “Towards regeneration: The evolution of medicine from fighting to rebuilding,” says he envisions medicine that doesn’t stop at the hospital door, but also sets conditions for a healthy life.

As more people live and die with chronic conditions or as survivors of cancer, the emphasis should be on how to live as a healthy person with these conditions, rather than just on treating the disease, said Hargraves, a service designer and researcher with the Mayo Clinic’s knowledge and evaluation research unit.

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