| Title |
What is Clinical Empathy?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of General Internal Medicine, August 2003
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| DOI | 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2003.21017.x |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jodi Halpern |
| 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. |
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| United States | 17 | 40% |
| Canada | 5 | 12% |
| Australia | 4 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 10% |
| Curaçao | 1 | 2% |
| Egypt | 1 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| South Africa | 1 | 2% |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 7 | 17% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 27 | 64% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 9 | 21% |
| Scientists | 4 | 10% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 5% |
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| Italy | 2 | <1% |
| France | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 707 | 98% |
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| Student > Master | 106 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 70 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 63 | 9% |
| Researcher | 46 | 6% |
| Other | 151 | 21% |
| Unknown | 143 | 20% |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 244 | 34% |
| Psychology | 95 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 58 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 49 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 2% |
| Other | 100 | 14% |
| Unknown | 161 | 22% |
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