Your doctor may be smart — but is he or she empathetic?
It could make a difference on your health, new research suggests.
The new study, published in the journal Academic Medicine, shows that diabetes patients of doctors who scored lower on a test of empathy were more likely to have a acute metabolic complications associated with their condition, than patients of doctors who scored higher on the test.
by Tracy SeedDo situations arise at work that confuse the way you relate professionally and personally with your colleagues? Have you ever listened to a colleagueIt seems that some of the reasons leaders fear being empathic, are because they are c…
Studies have shown that medical students have less empathy by the time they graduate, but several Boston healthcare centers are working to fix the issue. Dr. Daniel Chen, an assistant professor of medicine and assistant dean of student affai…
The Oxford Empathetic Care Program (OxCare) is an interdisciplinary research group that includes medical practitioners, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists.The questions we aim to answer include:What does empathy mean?How can practitioners re…
Empathy – real empathy – is a mysterious phenomenon. It’s reasonable to ask whether we have the capacity to truly tune into other people’s experiences, particularly when they’re traumatic. Perhaps we get closest…
