title: Hospital as a temple.
abstract: The present concept of hospital health care has exhausted its purpose. In a personal view as well as experience the idea "Hospital as a temple" was studied in an attempt to reconcile modern and technical with older form of health care, the latter often labelled as alternative or complementary. Both from a historical perspective as well as nowadays situation this vision is pursued.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Diakonessenhuis, Bosboomstraat 1, 3582 KE, Utrecht, The Netherlands. pleguit@diakhuis.nl
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Leguit
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006694:Holistic Health; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D019366:Western World