title: Quiet healing.
abstract: Both physicians and patients want deeply healing doctor-patient relationships. Too often, though, the ever-expanding demands of medical practice combine with the defenses of the patient to create doctor-patient isolation. Eastern and Western cosmologies and traditions may encourage different approaches to human interaction and healing. At times, probing the patient with more questions may open up a story vital to transformative healing. However, this narrative essay uses a personal experience as a patient of a Japanese traditional healer and Zen practitioner to explore the value of a quiet approach to patient care.
authors: Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Springville, UT 84663, USA. p_de_schweinitz@hotmail.com
authors: Peter A
authors: PA
authors: de Schweinitz
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D063545:Personal Narratives as Topic; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D029181:Spirituality