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Title: Efforts To Instill Empathy Among Doctors Are Paying Dividends
Post by: lighthouse33 on April 07, 2015, 12:39:43 PM
Efforts To Instill Empathy Among Doctors Are Paying Dividends

kaiserhealthnews.org/news/efforts-to-instill-empathy-among-doctors-is-paying-dividends/

Title: Re: Efforts To Instill Empathy Among Doctors Are Paying Dividends
Post by: litliwlowa on April 08, 2015, 03:48:52 AM
Interesting article.

But the irony for me in the article is that empathy needs to be taught and instilled and docs need to be trained to apply it????

And what about compassion? The two are not interchangeably the same. Empathy is more of a passive emotional response whereas compassion conversely includes empathy but with a desire to take action.