Compassionate communities as the foundation of the next healthcare revolution

  • Abel J & Wood T.
  • USA

Moving from a model of medicine in which ill health is seen as having a single causative agent that will respond to the treatment with a magic bullet of medication or surgery. Seeing disease as having multiple circumstances that come together which result in ill health. Taking a multifocal approach which recognises the fundamental importance of social relationships, can take medicine back into community, both inside and outside of the clinical setting

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