ABSTRACT
Medical humanities is a small part of a wider creative health experience. Doctors will always want to work alongside doctors, but with an increasing multidisciplinary approach to health care, it is essential that we are more inclusive, ensuring the whole of the multidisciplinary team, the patient, and the carers are invited to be part of the creative journey. This chapter proposes that medical humanities remains a strong and worthwhile discipline, but as a subheading under the inclusive umbrella of health humanities itself. It offers reflections by a practicing community physician (general practitioner) on the value of integrating a creative health humanity-based practice into patient care, the care of ourselves, and of our colleagues. It looks at using creativity in teaching, in life, and in death, providing examples of creative approaches you can try out for yourself.
