Arnav Agarwal is an Internal Medicine Resident (R1) at the University of Toronto. Check back the last Thursday of each month for a new featured piece as part of his series (Doc Talks: Reflections to Reality)!
Pieces of a puzzle inherit meaning not by their individual qualities, but by being pieced together into context. Good medicine — and good healthcare — are similar: they rely on understanding patients as people, and clinical presentations as brush-strokes forming part of a bigger picture.
In medicine,
_____we often treat diseases
_______instead of treating people
separating health from care.
____If we remember
____ _to treat every patient
___ ___as a person first, as we would our family:
our practice of healing
will come full circle—
and we will provide
truly holistic,
compassionate
healthcare.