Empathy
The Lancet: "Empathy
Rhodri Hayward a
Empathy is widely seen as the essential corrective to the modern dehumanisation of the patient. In his Harveian Oration on "Science, Society and the Perplexed Physician" at London's Royal College of Physicians, UK, in 2000, Lord Turnberg suggested that development of empathy was increasingly important because of the desensitising effects of clinical training. Yet this nostalgia for a lost empathic relationship between doctor and patient is curious, since the word was only invented at the beginning of the 20th century."/.../
Rhodri Hayward a
Empathy is widely seen as the essential corrective to the modern dehumanisation of the patient. In his Harveian Oration on "Science, Society and the Perplexed Physician" at London's Royal College of Physicians, UK, in 2000, Lord Turnberg suggested that development of empathy was increasingly important because of the desensitising effects of clinical training. Yet this nostalgia for a lost empathic relationship between doctor and patient is curious, since the word was only invented at the beginning of the 20th century."/.../
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