Solidarity Week for Compassionate Patient Care 2022

Three breaths for each patient Closed door.Close eyes. Breath one, my patient is here.She has waited for this visit,anticipating my help.This moment means much…

“Seriously,” I thought as I helped the patient onto the toilet. I then helped her off and situated her on the couch. As I…

The cultivation of compassionate patient care is threaded throughout training at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.  It begins as we interview and…

“I want to die today.”  Written on the white paper with a fat marker.  Written because his voice was gone and his diaphragm was…

If compassion is a tree, then human dignity is the roots, self-awareness is the branches, and empathy is the leaves. Of a tree, human…

The following is a poem I wrote for myself before the first day of our clinical anatomy lab. She is not alive in the…