With increasing reliance on diagnostic technologies and digital tools, are core clinical skills such as physical examination and empathetic patient interaction being neglected? How can medical education and healthcare systems re-integrate soft skills to ensure holistic, patient-cantered care?
The efforts to inculcate empathy among medical students are underway in the form of AETCOM module. The National Medical Commission is also monitoring the progress made in this area. However, as pointed out, increasing commercialisation led to the loss of a humane touch to medicine. The holistic care includes non-pharmaceutical therapies, which are completely neglected now. Its high time now to revisit the concept of holistic medicine to improve quality healthcare
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