Health care providers across the country are diagnosing, prescribing, and bandaging, but for many patients, that may not be enough to improve health.
Health care providers have a unique opportunity to improve patient health outcomes by practicing empathy for their patients and complex life circumstances. Empathy is defined as, “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another,” and studies have shown that empathy is an important skill for health care providers and is significantly associated with improved clinical outcom
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Health care providers have a unique opportunity
to improve patient health outcomes by
practicing empathy for their patient
s and complex life circumstances.
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by Aubrey Hill
