Ten Years of Construction of Person- and People-Centered Medicine and Health

Abstract

Almost from the beginning of its institutional journey, Person Centered Medicine (PCM) has been generally defined as an approach that places the person in context as the center of health and as the goal of health care. PCM in the clinical field has been presented as a medicine of the person (of the totality of the person's health, including its ill and positive aspects), for the person (promoting the fulfillment of the person’s life project), by the person (with clinicians extending themselves as full human beings, professionally competent, and with high ethical aspirations) and with the person (working respectfully, in collaboration and in an empowering manner with persons presenting for care).