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Jan 10, 2015
"I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it." --Maya Angelou
Building Empathy In Healthcare
Doctors are now being taught the communication of empathy, along with the ability to understand patients' emotions, in the hope that it can facilitate more accurate diagnoses and more caring treatment. In an interview, Dr. Helen Riess, the founder of Empathetics, discusses her innovative work on fostering empathy in the physician-patient relationship and its implications for improving healthcare delivery.
BE THE CHANGE
This week lend a sympathetic ear: practice empathy with a friend, an acquaintance or even a stranger.
