Friday, February 06, 2015

Empathy



AMA Journal of Ethics

Formerly Virtual Mentor

Illuminating the art of medicine

February 2015
Volume 17, Number 2

Professionalism and Appropriate Expression of Empathy when Breaking Bad News

Commentary by Amy Blair, MD, and Katherine Wasson, PhD, MPH
There are at least two considerations here: the patient's perception of a physician's empathic expression and the physician's level of comfort with expressing empathy and attending to patients' emotions.

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