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- Title
What is clinical empathy?
- Authors
Halpern, Jodi
- Abstract
Patients seek empathy from their physicians. Medical educators increasingly recognize this need. Yet in seeking to make empathy a reliable professional skill, doctors change the meaning of the term. Outside the field of medicine, empathy is a mode of understanding that specifically involves emotional resonance. In contrast, leading physician educators define empathy as a form of detached cognition. In contrast, this article argues that physicians' emotional attunement greatly serves the cognitive goal of understanding patients' emotions. This has important implications for teaching empathy.
- Publication
Journal of general internal medicine, 2003, Vol 18, Issue 8, p670
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1525-1497.2003.21017.x