PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Edgoose, Jennifer Y. C.
AU  - Edgoose, Julian M.
TI  - Finding Hope in the Face-to-Face
AID  - 10.1370/afm.2076
DP  - 2017 May 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 272--274
VI  - 15
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/15/3/272.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/15/3/272.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2017 May 01; 15
AB  - What does it mean to look into the face of a patient who looks back? Face-to-face encounters are at the heart of the patient-clinician relationship but their singular significance is often lost amid the demands of today’s high-tech, metric-driven health care systems. Using the framework provided by the philosopher and Holocaust survivor Emmanuel Levinas, the authors explore the unique responsibility and potential for hope found only in face-to-face encounters. Revisiting this most fundamental attribute of medicine is likely our greatest chance to reclaim who we are as clinicians and why we do what we do.