Dentistry has developed a pacesetter model for health care.

Health care is in chaos. There are many indications that managed care is not working. Most doctors feel discouraged with the system.

Neil Clemens has been in practice 10 years and isn't happy. His practice is not what he thought it would be. He feels his relationships with patients are adversarial instead of the caring relationships he wants with patients.

Ive have all this training to help people, but I seem to end up arguing with patients to get them to accept the treatment I recommend. Then there are insurers, regulators, lawyers, HIPPA and OSHA. All of these third parties are wedges that interfere with me helping patients. I have lost contact with the reason I went into health care -- to use my knowledge, caring and compassion to help people."

Dentistry has a model for health care that emphasizes the central role that caring doctor/patient relationships play in a health care practice. This relationship-based and health-centered model can be the pacesetter for all the health care professions. It moves the focus in health care and health care decisions from insurers, regulators and other third parties back to the doctor and patient.

A new web site publication, "In a Spirit of Caring" has been established to help doctors recapture the fulfillment that comes from establishing caring doctor/patient relationships.

Lynn Carlisle DDS, the author of the book "In a Spirit of Caring", is the publisher and editor of the web site.

Carlisle said Health care has been undergoing a lengthy period of transition and change in delivery systems and core values. Out of the chaos these changes have produced has been the quiet emergence of a relationship-based and health-centered model of care.

Dentistrys long experience with treating and preventing lifestyle disease has led to development of this model. This way of practicing uses years of research in dentistry, psychology and sociology to create effective helping environments for doctors and patients."

The 'In a Spirit of Caring' web site is a combination virtual library, think tank, on line health care community and resource center for those people in health care who want to re-establish a caring connection with their patients."

For more information on this relationship-based/health-centered model visit www.spiritofcaring.com