The Patient’s Call Versus the Patient’s Well Being

Abstract

In the early part of last century health was considered as a life, lived in the silence of the organs, when medicine was considered as the discipline that produces doctors who respond to their patient’s call and this call is “Pathetic” (i.e. Linked to suffering). In 1946, WHO proposed a radically different perspective: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.