Empathy and patient visitsBeyond listening, physicians can strengthen their relationships with patients by empathizing with them, Leigh said. Many physicians think being empathetic takes too much time, or they miss emotional cues because they focus on …

‘Empathy’ has been revered as the emotional analog of wisdom. I’m here to say that it is vastly overrated, and there is something else far better. More on that later.Empathy is variously defined as “The feeling that you understa…

Pinker wrote that greater empathy is one of the big reasons for a decline in violence in this very populated planet. While the media makes it easy for us to see and hear about torture and brutality from around the world in seconds, that same media give…

“I believe that empathy – the imaginative act of stepping into another person’s shoes and viewing the world from their perspective –  is a radical tool for social change and should be a guiding light for the art of living.” …