At last, after 48 years of medical practice, I finally can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I enrolled in medical school, hoping to treat my patients as human beings; unfortunately, this was not the way things were presented. Everything was science and only science- so called evidence based data. Little did we know how flawed a lot of this data was. Big Pharma wanted more than their share of the pie, and they were willing to lie, for this to be so.Even in Family Medicine, data was king. What I thought would be an interaction between MD and patient, tended to become focused on physicality and not on the “real patient “. For 35 years, I resented this focus, I tried to learn about what made my patients unique and then use this in the treatment plan. It was certainly better than the motto of allopathic medicine- “reduce everything to one diagnosis and give the one magical pill”.Thomas Moore has shown how this can be accomplished by involving the psyche/soul/ spirit in the equation. This starts by designing the health care facility and providing friendly caring staff, appropriate music and art work. Above all else however, this type of care needs providers who are willing to open themselves and allow an exchange of soul understanding with the patient. In this way, the patients feel they have been listened to and the provider, through the interaction, has a change to achieve a new perspective on their own spirit and soul.Dr. James M. Bell