Healing Hospital Research Paper
Healing Hospitals
“The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.”
-Plato
Most hospitals today focus mainly on technology, medical interventions and treating symptoms of a disease. Care can be a very impersonal experience as patients are carted from examination room to operating table to recovery room with very little interaction afforded to them by the physician. With monitor alarms beeping continuously in the halls to alert distant and unavailable staff of problems or potential problems patient lie in their hospital bed in a state of constant stress. At the end of their stay they are handed a set of written discharge instructions, a list of alarming things to be wary of that could happen to them after they have gone home, and a prescription note to fill at their local …show more content…
People do not necessarily have to be cured to become healed, where healing means finding peace within oneself in spite of one’s condition. Interestingly, a person can be cured from a disease but not be healed. For example, a 28 year old post-operative testicular cancer patient received news that all the cancerous lesions have been removed but is grieving and angry at the world because treatment has left him physically altered and unable to ever produce children one day. So, it is the goal of Mercy Gilbert Hospital to unite body, mind, and spirit. Simply by reducing the amount of anxiety a patient feels while in the hospital can have amazing positive influence on
“The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.”
-Plato
Most hospitals today focus mainly on technology, medical interventions and treating symptoms of a disease. Care can be a very impersonal experience as patients are carted from examination room to operating table to recovery room with very little interaction afforded to them by the physician. With monitor alarms beeping continuously in the halls to alert distant and unavailable staff of problems or potential problems patient lie in their hospital bed in a state of constant stress. At the end of their stay they are handed a set of written discharge instructions, a list of alarming things to be wary of that could happen to them after they have gone home, and a prescription note to fill at their local …show more content…
People do not necessarily have to be cured to become healed, where healing means finding peace within oneself in spite of one’s condition. Interestingly, a person can be cured from a disease but not be healed. For example, a 28 year old post-operative testicular cancer patient received news that all the cancerous lesions have been removed but is grieving and angry at the world because treatment has left him physically altered and unable to ever produce children one day. So, it is the goal of Mercy Gilbert Hospital to unite body, mind, and spirit. Simply by reducing the amount of anxiety a patient feels while in the hospital can have amazing positive influence on