I drive by Lankenau Trauma Center on Lancaster Ave nearly every day. It’s where you go if you experience physical trauma, I guess. Diagnostics, surgeries, and recovery plans are dished out daily. It’s a place to go if you’ve been injured.
Why is it named after the injury and not the intent? Why put focus on the trauma we already know is there? How different would Medicine be if we placed our attention on healing rather than the wound?
Lankenau Healing Center would be more aligned with the collective medical mission of the facility. We call it “healthcare” because people take care of you to improve your health. We don’t call it “disease management,” though, that’s what the western medical system has become.
Let’s rename Trauma Centers to Healing Centers and watch the shift in recovery to healing. Mindset matters, especially when you’re rebounding from a traumatic accident.