Medical practice focused in human beings, taking into account both humanistic, and scientific aspects, as well as human rights is the main pathway to be followed by us, physicians; and this must lead us to always keep in mind that both medical art and science play for patients and not against them.

El diagnóstico tiene un papel fundamental en medicina. En él se basa el Clínico para recordar, pensar y actual. Con vistas al mejor cumplimiento de sus objetivos, la estructura y formulación del diagnóstico han experimentado desarrollos substanciales en tiempos recientes. Esto ha llevado a avances en su confiabilidad o reproducibilidad, y, más incipientemente, en su validez o utilidad. Muchos de este progreso y reto está conectado a innovaciones recientes en al Clasificación Internacional de Enfermedades.

Medical practice focused in human beings, taking into account both humanistic, and scientific aspects, as well as human rights is the main pathway to be followed by us, physicians; and this must lead us to always keep in mind that both medical art and science play for patients and not against them.

Background: This article emerges as part of a process led by the National Academy of Medicine of Peru closely with other Latin American Academies of Medicine, and major universities and health-related professionals. Objective: To describe and substantiate the importance of the Person Centered Medicine (CCM) in the Latin American context. Methodology: Review articles and Latin American experiences on the subject, engaging in academic meetings to discuss related content, two preliminary in Lima in December 2013 and January 2014, third in Buenos Aires, regarding the 2nd International Congress of Medicine Centered Person with the presence of the Academies of Medicine, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru (November 2014) and fourth in Lima, Meeting of the Academy of Medicine of Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay and Peru (December 2014). Results: historical and contemporary, universal and local...