Human touch is considered a prerequisite to health and well-being even to the point that infants left without it suffer considerably or even die. Medical science has failed to develop this vital area of communication as a means of producing knowledge or by using it in primary care. One paper has listed 12 medical schools where touch was being taught. This paper begins with a justification of why human touch is important in patient-physician relationships and discusses salient issues in addressing human touch in a medical school setting at Turku university. It offers an outline of a unit where touch is being taught in relation to content, skills and an appropriate development of professional attitudes.