Trans-formation in medicine Planning the change in End of Life health care

Abstract

The term “humanization of medicine,” now widely used to show the importance of the recovery of human and relational dimension in the process of care, deserves to be re-discussed and considered with reference to the way the relationship between health/disease, norm/deviation has evolved in the context of our civilization. Around this expression, in fact, are gathered the requests
for change addressed to medicine and to a biomedical approach to illness. It thus allows one to reflect on the cultural meanings that accompany the experience of illness, pain and suffering and the transformations that over the past decades have touched the medicine. In this perspective, the article presents the results of a study on the lived experiences of general practitioners working in the context of end of life, which shows the importance of implementing training programs increasingly integrated through the inter-disciplinary nature of knowledge and through the contribution of specific professional profiles (family mediators) to improve the scope of relationships and communication between the physician, the patient and the family of the latter.