From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice by Jodi Halpern

From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice

Jodi Halpern

165 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction psychology challenging informative medium-paced
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Physicians recognize the importance of patients' emotions in healing yet believe their own emotional responses represent lapses in objectivity. Patients complain that physicians are too detached. Halpern argues that by empathizing with patients, r...

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