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- Compassion implies or requires empathy and includes the desire to help or alleviate the suffering of others. Compassion in the medical context is likely a specific instance of a more complex adaptive system that has evolved, not only among humans, to motivate recognition and assistance when others suffer.
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Mar 27, 2017 · It’s compassion, or better still, compassionate doctors. Before you stop reading, don’t make the mistake of confusing compassion with pity or commiseration. Compassion isn't a single, sympathetic utterance, but is rather made up of presence and engagement that suffuses an entire conversation .
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Researchers wanted to pinpoint three specific elements of compassion: recognizing that the patient is suffering, emotional resonance (the sense of connection with a patient) and actually moving to address the suffering. Here are some examples of compassionate communication that the researchers identified.
Jun 3, 2022 · Compassion has been defined as an emotion, 1 a motivation 2 and a virtuous response. 3 At the least, it involves both feeling and action components 2 , 4 , 5 the awareness of suffering and acting to alleviate it. 6 In medicine, compassion is desired by patients, mandated by medical regulatory bodies and increasingly linked to positive outcomes ...
- 10.1111/hex.13512
- 2022/08
- Health Expect. 2022 Aug; 25(4): 1691-1702.
Dec 29, 2020 · Compassion is among the most important virtues in medicine, expected from medical professionals and anticipated by patients.
- Sofie I Baguley, Vinayak Dev, Antonio T Fernando, Nathan S Consedine
- 2020
Mar 20, 2024 · Compassion implies or requires empathy and includes the desire to help or alleviate the suffering of others. Compassion in the medical context is likely a specific instance of a more complex...
Compassion: A Powerful Tool for Improving Patient Outcomes. The release of Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference, authored by physician-scientists Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli, has ignited a conversation on the relationship between physician compassion and patient outcomes.
Mar 1, 2024 · Patients expect compassion from their health care providers, 1 and a recent survey found that 85% of patients and 91% of doctors value compassion. 2 Furthermore, the desire to help those suffering from disease and disability is prominently included among stated reasons for pursuing a medical career. 3 Most medical schools have language in their ...