Covenant Medicine

Covenant MedicineWritten for healthcare providers and patients Covenant Medicine refocuses the therapeutic relationship between physician and patient onto mutual trust honesty and integrity.After identifying the changes in medical culture David H. Beyda MD asks fellow doctors to fix what’s broken with the system being accountable intentional and committed to and for the good of the patient. He discusses the physician/patient relationship as a covenant which allows the physician to consciously agree to be truly present when working with a patient—and for the patient to demand such quality thoughtful compassionate care. Interested in the importance of the interplay between physical and spiritual health Beyda suggests that a covenant relationship can contain transformational aspects such as faith. This allows the physician and the patient to transcend the confining definitions of illness and come to a greater understanding of the nuances of caregiving.