Philosophy of Care:
“A person is a complex being, more of trajectory through time than an object, that includes a past, and a believed-in future combined with society, culture, family, role, work, relationship (with others, self and body), a private life, and transcendent dimension….. If judgements are really about patients and not just their parts, it follows that clinicians should know as much as is relevant about their patients as a whole – sick or well persons – as about their body parts. Otherwise, clinical decision making will be flawed by inadequate information” - (Cassel EJ)
