title: Personalism in health care.
abstract: The practice of personalism in health care will not survive unless health care professionals uphold the inherently equal value of all persons and regard health care as a covenant between themselves and their patients. Respecting the dignity and rights of patients, especially those whose quality of life is severely diminished, demands increasingly great and even heroic efforts.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002410:Catholicism; D002648:Child; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D008020:Life Support Care; D010327:Pastoral Care; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life; D014918:Wills