"Chaplain-student mentor program:
Flesh and blood--and spirit"

What is a physician? A scientist, or a caregiver?

What is a patient? A disease/injury/illness, or a human being, a creation greater than the sum of its parts and biological processes?

And finally, what is medicine? Is it merely the diagnosis and treatment of the limitless afflictions of the human body, or something more, something greater? Where do trust, hope, and faith come in? Is there room for such old-fashioned values in a brisk, sometimes brusque world?

At the Stritch School of Medicine, the answer to that last question is a resounding "Yes." There is not only room for these values, but an emphasis on them--on the basic concept of a whole physician treating a whole human being, who is a person first, a patient second.

- Stritch MD (alumni magazine of the Loyola University School of Medicine), Winter 1995

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