Drs. Welby and Kildare are now a thing of the past for the most part. Today's fragmented health care has lost the personal relationship between doctor and patient and is oriented to saving money and getting people back on their feet and back to work as quickly as possible. The personal relationship where a healer listens and cares has become "unaffordable" and treatments have become standardized and insensitive to each individual's special and unique needs.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is taking another look at bringing back a form of the comprehensive care physician who will take care of both out and inpatients by awarding researchers at the University of Chicago a $6 million grant to measure the cost effectiveness of less fragmented health care.
Real health care addresses the whole person--physically, emotionally, mentallly, and spiritually. There is little attention to holistic medicine today in mainstream medical care.
