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Using the Experience of Illness in Shaping the Missions of Health Care

Stanley Joel Reiser, MD, MPA, PhD

JAMA. 1993;269(8):1012-1017.

Abstract
The emergence of an era that focuses on the experiences of individuals with illness to provide an alternative voice in health care is explored. Antecedent events that caused the eclipse of the patient and challenged the authenticity of personal experience in establishing medical facts—the introduction of the concept of diseases and the technologic revolution in medicine—are examined. Recent events that returned the patient's views to the center of medical attention—the medical ethics and outcomes movements—are analyzed and connected. Recommendations are presented to make the experience of individuals with illness significant features of health care practice, education, research, and policy, and to reverse the view of patients and subjects as individuals benefited by medicine, but unable to help it.

(JAMA. 1993;269:1012-1017)

Author Affiliations
From the Program on Humanities and Technology in Health Care and the Health Policy Institute, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Program on Humanities and Technology in Health Care, PO Box 20708, Houston, TX 77225 (Dr Reiser).

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