title: Healing.
abstract: My personal ethos of healing is an expression of the belief that I can and do act to heal patients while I attend to the traditional goals of medicine. The 7 supporting principles that inform my ethos are dignity, authenticity, integrity, transparency, solidarity, generosity, and resiliency. I invite others, including medical students, residents, and practicing physicians, to reflect and discover their own ethos of healing and the principles that guide their professional growth. A short digital documentary accompanies this essay for use as a reflective prompt to encourage personal and professional development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA Institute for Studies in History, Anthropology and Archeology, University of El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador wventres@gmail.com.
authors.forename: William B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Ventres
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: medical education; medical ethics; medical philosophy; physician-patient relations; physician’s role; professional competence