Human touch carries significant therapeutic power but is it a skill doctors are losing through fear?
During a resuscitation, would it be such a burden to have a designated team member whose role is simply to hold the patient’s hand?
From personal experience, I know how invaluable therapeutic touch is at a time when the psychological status of the patient is the last thing on the medical team’s mind.
Would it be bold to say that humanity is often pushed to the side as the patient becomes physiology, parameters and procedures?
I am blessed with the curse of idiopathic anaphylaxis.