Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care
In this thorough revision, updating, and expansion of his great 2007 book, Empathyin Patient Care, Professor Hojat offers all of us in healthcare education an upliftingmagnum opus that is sure to greatly enhance how we conceptualize, measure, and teachthe
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Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care
Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care
Mohammadreza Hojat
Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care
Mohammadreza Hojat Sidney Kimmel Medical College Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA, USA
“Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care” is an expanded and updated version of Empathy in Patient Care: Antecedents, Development, Measurement, and Outcomes published by Springer in 2007.
ISBN 978-3-319-27624-3 ISBN 978-3-319-27625-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-27625-0
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In dedication to those who devote their professional lives to understanding human suffering, eliminating pain, eradicating disease and infirmity, curing human illnesses, and improving the physical, mental, and social well-being of their fellow human beings.
Foreword to the Original Edition
Empathy for me has always been a feeling “almost magical” in medical practice, one that brings passion with it, more than vaunted equanimity. Empathy is the projection of feelings that turn I and you into I am you, or at least I might be you. Empathy grows with living and experience. More than a neurobiological response, it brings feelings with it. Empathy helps us to know who we are and keeps us physicians from sterile learned responses. Originally, the emotion generated by an image, empathy began as an aesthetic concept, one that should have meaning for medical practices now becoming so visual. Empathy comes in many different guises. Empathy can be looking out on the world from the same perspective as that of the patient: to understand your patients better, sit down beside t
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