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From idealized clinical empathy to empathic communication in medical care

verfasst von: Jodi Halpern

Erschienen in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy | Ausgabe 2/2014

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Outside of healthcare settings, people use the term empathy to mean “feeling with” another person or putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. The assumption is that emotional resonance with another clues you in to how they feel. This has been problematic for doctors, who have historically believed that they could understand their patients’ feelings while striving for emotional detachment: objectivity is seen as crucial for making tough diagnoses, and stoicism is believed to be necessary for providing invasive, sometimes noxious, treatment. Additionally, there is concern with avoiding burnout, or more specifically, compassion fatigue.¹ …

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Titel: From idealized clinical empathy to empathic communication in medical care
verfasst von: Jodi Halpern
Publikationsdatum: 01.05.2014
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy / Ausgabe 2/2014
Print ISSN: 1386-7423
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-8633
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-013-9510-4

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