where law and medicine meet
As I discussed here and here, I’m very interested in the growing efforts to “humanize” law school and the practice of law. With similar interest, I’ve followed the movement to educate medical doctors on treating the patient as a whole – body, mind and spirit. Two New York doctors at the forefront of the humanism in medicine movement, Drs. Steven Miller and Richard Sarkin, recently died in a plane crash on their way to inaugurate “a new humanistic curriculum designed to encourage a more compassionate [medical school] campus.” As I read about their professional lives and contributions to the field of fostering more compassionate medical care and caregivers, I was very moved and inspired. I couldn’t help but think how all the healing vocations, including the legal profession, would greatly benefit from teaching their practitioners this kind of empathic and holistic service delivery model. This site provides a nice overview of humanism in medicine and the wonderful work of Drs. Miller and Sarkin.
