Once known as having a “good bedside manner,” showing empathy benefits patients and physicians.Developed by medical faculty at Duke, the University of Pittsburgh and several other medical schools, “Oncotalk” is part of…

The poor are more attuned to social relations, because they have to be. Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy. A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain. In 2008, so…

Empathy triggered in little boy’s superhero storySee it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

Lessons From Thich Nhat Hanh on Compassionate Listening… Do you have empathy for the suffering of others?   Do you have the desire to alleviate others’ distress? I’m immediate answer is OF COURSE I DO! I have deep compassion for…