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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