Abstract
<p>The first and foremost requisite of caring is to treat patients as persons, not as diseases or bed-numbers. A qualitative study was conducted to explore the perception of good care from the point of view of 13 terminally ill patients<br />and 8 caregiving family members of the University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The results were thematically analyzed. Five basic themes were generated: (1) Attitude, (2) Behaviour, (3) Communication, (4) Duty and (5) Environment—ABCDE. The results may provide useful insight into the art of caring.</p>
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