title: Practicing beautiful medicine beautifully: Hiram Curry's vision in the 21st century.
abstract: Hiram Curry's Vision and "Crossing the Quality Chasm" A generation after Hiram first spoke of "Practicing Beautiful Medicine Beautifully", with focus on medical science, understanding the patient and understanding the physician, his vision can be seen in the report's definition of quality care: "Good quality means providing patients with appropriate services in a technically competent manner, with good communication, shared decision-making, and cultural sensitivity." As we in medicine develop and adopt needed changes in the health care delivery, education, and financing systems we would do well to remember Hiram Curry's vision and strategies for "Practicing Beautiful Medicine Beautifully."
mesh_terms: D005194:Family Practice / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000266:history; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000266:history; D013022:South Carolina