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>> We have developed a deep conviction that the concept of humane medicine must be demonstrated
from the top down, from the dean, department heads, nursing heads, hospital administration,
et cetera. Technology and caring can be combined, but you must search your soul. Empathizing,
comforting can be combined with your help and endowment.
>> The Kienle Center is extraordinary. It provides funding for some of our students
to work in global health. It provides funding for a drama program. It provides funding for
a lot of our students to engage in activities that otherwise they're just simply would not
be funding for.
>> I think when we look back in time, the human has always been at the very center of
the practice of at least human-based medicine.
>> It seems to me, it so obvious a doctor should be humane but that's not the way it
always turns out.
>> In the early days of my nursing education, you ate to be stiff and professional and not
that that's wrong. That's right to have boundaries. But there is a place, there is a need for
a place to go to talk about the impact on you because it's unrealistic to think that
a nurse or doctor walks into a room and they don't bring with them some potential impact.
>> The single best accomplishment of the center is the way that it is able to bind together
members throughout the institution, that rarely come together for other events and the work
a day world around here, it's a very busy environment.
>> The Kienle Center has offered opportunities for students to move outside of hardcore medicine.
>> That's what this experience made me realize that there are a lot of countries and a lot
of people around the world who kind of value this and there's--that there's--it's not there.
I mean there's a lots of people who don't have access--who have never seen doctors in
their lifetime. I think this experience made me realized that I do--I should be, you know,
kind of volunteering my time once I do become full-pledged physician.
>> We did a project there, some of the people in our group where we talked to people and
went into their homes and try to find out more about who they were and I thought that
was interesting and a helpful aspect because it took the medicine away from the people
and just left the human beings.
>> In the first couple of days, you're kind of--it kinda seems overwhelming but then towards
the end of it, you realized that exactly you can change, you can only do so much and--but
you should be doing what you can do.
>> It's changed their lives and that's what we really wanna do. They now have the global
interest which is great. They have Wild Onions which is a magazine.
>> Because in Wild Onions now--not only is it medical students writing, but it's nurses,
it's patients, it's patients' family and it's--no words can really express how exciting that
is and also to see photographs and artwork. It's just expanded and become more beautiful
than that. That first issue I picked up.
>> The Kienle Center is a good idea whose time has come and it will continue to grow
because the projects are appropriate for the time. For example, the international intercultural
outreach, that was a project that was premature 25 years ago but it's absolutely appropriate
now.
>> I find it quite intriguing that it was the then young medical student Kienle--or
the Kinles were facing treatments from tuberculosis and the relatively inhumane type of care that
they were getting close to the end of the World War II era that sparked in them a need
to drive more towards a compassionate patient center type of care.
>> Again can you teach and you can't teach that. I think you do it by example.
>> We have a good recollection of the spirit of change with the Kienle and at continuing
input [inaudible] who have continually emphasized the importance of this work and be of great
gratitude to them. They're starting our efforts and we've done a good job with that but we're
moving into a new timeframe and if we want our emphasis on humanism and medicines to
improve, to increase, to expand toward the, to have additional resources to do that. We
all think that what we're doing this for the world.
>> What I've seen is a small little seed grow into this large tree which has borne fruit
beyond I think what any of us could ever have dreamed of 25 years ago.
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