There’s an old French saying: to cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always. It could serve a mantra for all health care professionals. It reminds us that it can be more important to treat the person who has the disease than it is to treat the disease the person has.
Two recent vignettes were sent to us that illustrate these points.
Croina’s Pride by James Channing Shaw and
My Struggle by Lee Thompson
Both provide valuable insights for patients, their families and all care givers.
They appear in The Online Journal of Community and Person-Centered Dermatology (OJCPCD), a free, post-publication peer-reviewed, full text, open-access, online publication.