Patient Centered Care

Book excerpt: About the book:This book is a collaborative attempt to give a new perspective to 'patient centered care'. Our attempt was to bring in psychological factors that can help carers realise their "healing power". To elaborate on our position, we examined ancient Indian wisdom of the mind-body-soul connection to stress management aspects. Our underlying objective is to prepare the clinical and non-clinical teams with relevant concepts of human psychology that can help them revisit or devise a patient-centric care model. The how's and whys of this approach will unfold as you get through this book. We would like to dedicate this book to all those who have braved complicated medical conditions and to their carers (clinical and non-clinical) who have stood by them through highs and lows to fight their battles.