ing, and Healing: Challenges of Contemporary

Medicine ” 2 reveals deep yearnings and strong convictions among clinicians, patients, and medical students. Clinicians describe a yearning for an integra-tive approach to medicine in which “relational wisdom and clinical wisdom [are] inextricably tied together ” 3 so that we can “reclaim our own souls, and…learn to heal again. ” 4 On an individual level, this requires self-aware-ness5 and a willingness to provide patients with space in which healing can take place.6 On a broader level, it requires medical training that emphasizes patient cen-teredness7 and the ability not only to communicate but to connect.6 In addition, according to a medical student, role models of physician healers “are essential to coun-teracting the sometimes unhealthy pressures we face as students. ” 8 Patients describe the transformative power i