Building Empathy In Healthcare

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January 10, 2015 a project of ServiceSpace I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. - Maya Angelou - Building Empathy In Healthcare Doctors are now being taught the communication of empathy, along with the ability to understand patients' emotions, in the hope that it can facilitate more accurate diagnoses and more caring treatment. In an interview, Dr. Helen Riess, the founder of Empathetics, discusses her innovative work on fostering empathy in the physician-patient relationship and its implications for improving healthcare delivery. { read more } Be The Change This week lend a sympathetic ear: practice empathy with a friend, an acquaintance or even a stranger. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The One Thing They Carried With Them The Difference Between Listening & Hearing The Science of Love On Navigating Stuckness A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Ten Things Creative People Know DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 154,237 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More