The art part of medicine is neglected. Doctors are scientists. Science encourages such qualities. In humanistic medicine, the aim is to bridge the gap between medicine as an art and medicine as a science. The idea is to reconsider the whole approach.
Patients are human beings with feelings.
Until now, there are doctors who do not ask patients questions, do not talk to them to find out how they feel, let alone what they think. Stolt maintains that art and literature can teach doctors a lot. Patients expect doctors to be experts and scientists. After all, they go to them for their knowledge, skill and know-how. But they also, and this is a challenge for the medical profession as much as it is for the teaching profession, expect from doctors sympathy, encouragement, care, compassion and perhaps even love.