“While medicine has achieved greater precision, it has become less personal.”
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“While medicine has achieved greater precision, it has become less personal.”
“Imagine a world where hospitals brim with cutting-edge technology, yet the surrounding community’s health deteriorates.”
That’s the opening line of Dr. Varon latest editorial ‘The moral ecology of community’ co-written with
I thought the second last paragraph summed it up beautifully – “When communities are regarded as expendable, public health deteriorates. When moral boundaries are disregarded, trust erodes. When individuals are reduced to variables, no analytical model can fully capture what is lost.”
Have a read. It’s wonderful.
In these times, with what we’ve all recently gone through, this is a great reminder of the power of community, and all its accumulated positives for our health. I thought it a great read, a great reminder of what’s really important. What did you get out of it?
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