5 Ways to Fill the Clinical Empathy Gap

Empathy, compassion, and patience seem to be in short supply in the examining room, the classroom, and the operating room. Patients increasingly are feeling like their doctors simply don’t care and students and trainees feel that the culture of medical education is abusive and counterproductive. What’s more, many think it is the reason why unprofessional and disruptive behavior is perpetuated when graduates start practicing.  – See more at: http://www.hcplive.com/physicians-money-digest/contributor/arlen-meyers-md-mba/2016/05/5-ways-to-fill-the-clinical-empathy-gap#sthash.bQAVUzNH.dpuf