In an ideal world, medicine is the embodiment of intelligence and humanity. Over time, however, medicine has been skewed into a field primarily pertaining to money and data, and less about the patient from a humanistic perspective. To embrace our humanity, it must be incorporated within medical education and its practice; this is the only way medicine shall evolve. With a thorough application of the humanities and an integration of the human condition, an understanding of our duty to one another can be achieved. Likewise, the social sciences can expand our cultural competency and exercising the arts will grant insight into ourselves and allow our empathy to flourish. These concepts are not new. In fact, these ideas predate Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine.

Here, you will find articles and scientific literature investigating how the incorporation of the humanities, social sciences, and the arts can rehumanize and soften the medical field, which has been hardening for some time. To move forward and progress, we must look to our past.