It seems strange to me that so much of “health care” is focused on diseases and their management. A disease is always only a part of a patient’s life and experience. Whilst it’s important to deal with disease when it’s present, surely that’s never enough. Health is experienced by a person, a whole person, and care is expressed in relationships. Without a focus on health and care, what kind of “health care” do we get?
At times it seemed to her they were so focused on disease that patients and suffering were incidental to their work
Cutting For Stone. Abraham Verghese
Heroes Not Zombies 
It is difficult to communicate, it is difficult to take the case,it is difficult to be present and take the case, but is so simple to try.Thank you so very much for your work, which gently shakes our life force to be present.
have heard this a lot, ‘i am more than cancer/ disease/ etc’.
seems to me as if it is one way some people have come to know other people, and in that way of knowing reduce that knowing to particular ways of speaking, looking, feeling.