Description Stories and Conversations to Forge a Vision for Health Care Medicine at the Crossroads is a Collection of revised and expanded essays based a column originally published in the Waco-Tribune Herald by renowned cardiologist Dr.
Together, may we find healing--for ourselves, our loved ones, and our s.
Ultimately, the purpose of Medicine at the Crossroads is to help us find our way to compassionate, humane Health Care for all.
May we each glimpse the possibilities and discover our own fresh, creative solutions.
So, let us take a collective breath and examine our personal feelings and expectations of medicine.
The purpose is simply to start conversations.
While this Collection may offer some solutions with "fear and trembling," it does not dare claim to have all the answers.
Whether you are a physician, patient, or other participant in the healthCare system, may you be bold enough, humble enough, and vulnerable enough to listen to these stories--and to the Stories of those around you--with wonder and awe.
The Conversations are for all of us.
Attas\'s 40-year career are not just for students.
But the Stories that have emerged from Dr.
Attas and his students explored Medicine and the human condition through Stories of brokenness and redemption, pain and loss, and joy and despair.
Dr.
The program was the first of its kind in the United States, and it redefined how students prepare for a career in Health care.
Attas founded the Medical Humanities Program.
The Collection originated among scores of bright, inquisitive students in the classrooms of Baylor University, where Dr.
Attas\'s hope that these Stories Forge together to reveal a larger narrative truth.
Collectively, it is Dr.
Individually, each story of illness, medicine, and healing provides a tiny, fragmented glimpse into the heart of a problem.
It touches on three perspectives - the physician, the patient, and the healthCare system - and addresses some of the most pressing questions in Medicine today.
Michael Attas.
Description Stories and Conversations to Forge a Vision for Health Care Medicine at the Crossroads is a Collection of revised and expanded essays based a column originally published in the Waco-Tribune Herald by renowned cardiologist Dr
