Researchers Redefine Cura Personalis -- Caring For The Whole Person -- Using Systems Medicine
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 10:14
in Health & Medicine
At a time when medicine tends to focus on patients as a "collection of visceral organs and a nervous system," systems medicine provides a new approach to medical practice that is "anticipated to result in more comprehensive and systematic patient care." In a recent commentary, two researchers ask, "Is there a future for systems medicine" particularly as the country considers a health care overhaul?