The Importance of Healing Skills in the Medical Home Concept

TO THE EDITOR:

Many would readily agree with the findings of Churchill and Schenck (1), particularly those clinicians who routinely apply the relational (healing) skills described. But, for practicing physicians, the skills they mentioned require time—and a frame of mind unhindered by the need to see a disproportionate number of patients. Sadly, for many primary care doctors in particular, insurers' low remuneration rates and excessive administrative obligations have polluted the atmosphere for healing skills to survive. Keeping up with the …