ABSTRACT
Healing is the art and heart of medicine.2 To be a healer requires a sensitive heart, an acute mind, and disciplined training (the last requirement is one which tends to be pushed into the background in the ‘counter culture’). The concept of healing and the knowledge about the process of healing is so central to medicine, that it is surprising to find that modern medical textbooks devote so few pages to this subject. In some recent textbooks of pathology there is no separate chapter on healing; the subject is discussed under ‘inflammation’.
