Past and Future
Recently
I had the privilege of attending the award ceremony for the Fellowship of the
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Doctors from twenty countries were receiving awards. They were representative of different
societies and faiths brought together because of their common aim to serve
humanity.
The
ceremony linked the past to our present and future by considering the
achievements of those who have gone before us which provided the stepping
stones to what we can achieve today in relation to health care. It brought together different
generations. Most importantly the need
for compassion, to listen, to see people as individuals were all emphasised. Advances in techniques and technology are not
substitutes for kindliness which must be inherent in all care.
These are
values we must espouse in delivering care wherever it is given or received
remembering that we are first a person and then symptoms and frailty.
Maureen
O'Neill
July 2015
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