Treating the patient, not the disease

In his latest KevinMD column, ACP's Vice President of Membership and Global Engagement, Philip A. Masters, MD, FACP, shares his personal experience of the health care system as a caregiver. Dr. Masters writes, “These personal experiences highlight the need for us as physicians to seek to apply our medical armamentarium in a more individualized, nuanced way that considers both the context and trajectory of our patient's lives.”