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Changing ideas of causality in medicine.

Since the phrase "treat the patient as a person" has been around for a long time, one may wonder what is meant by saying the new focus of medicine will be the person. The usage "treat the patient as a person" suggests that a doctor should treat the patient in the manner one would treat a person as if a patient were a person. Or, put differently, a humane physician, while treating a cancer, must always remember that the cancer occurs in a person whose needs, fears, emotions, and so forth should be kept in mind. While that is a step on the way to where I believe medicine is going, it is still far short. The evidence for today's gradual change from disease to person is largely indirect, reflecting dissatisfaction both within and outside the profession. There is increasing concern with ethical issues in medical research and practice. Humanities have been introduced into the curricula of a number of