Tag: empathy and psychiatry

A Patient Reads His Psychiatrist

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Dr. W.’s description of me, that I was agitated, insulting, uncooperative, did not match the emotions I was feeling. I felt distraught, hopeless, terrified, and desperate.

“Doctors Have Become Less Empathetic, But Is It Their Fault?”

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Physician and medical sociologist David Scales explores why there seems to be less empathy from doctors in clinics and hospitals and why student’s empathy...