Dr. Louise Terry, PhD PGCHE LLB (Hons) FIBMS
"I believe that in order to practice humane medicine, we need to rediscover our sense of ourselves and our patients as people of differing professions, education or none; differing beliefs, values and politics; differing colours and ethnicities; wives, mothers, daughters, fathers, sons, imperfect, struggling to do our best, or merely just survive, within an imperfect and often unjust world. We need to understand how, and how well, we connect and interact with each other and to this end I believe that the praxis of care can be reframed through honest reflection. The foundations of humane medicine are reflective, reflexive practitioners. ""....Visual and audio technology can help bring stories, actions, omissions, aspirations and values to life and allow a permanent record of the story to be kept for future use."
Dr Louise Terry PhD PGCHE LLB (Hons) FIBMS is a healthcare
professional (biomedical scientist) of over thirty years standing with a law
degree and doctorate in medical law and ethics. Her thesis Saying No: Withholding and Withdrawing
Medical Treatment explored how consultant doctors made decisions. She is a
member of the Clinical Ethics Committee at St Christopher’s Hospice (founded by
Dame Cicely Saunders). She has taught ethics and law to undergraduate and
post-graduate health and social care students at London South
Bank University, London, United
Kingdom, since 1998.
