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The Charter of Compassion for Care is a document that wants to inspire everybody involved to restore compassion as the core principle of healthcare. Supported by more and more professionals, organisations and governmental bodies the Charter of Compassion for Care activates the Golden Rule in healthcare: treat others as you would want to be treated.
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Research is revealing what goes on in the brains of health care workers when they see patients as objects...
Dehumanization is generally a negative state of affairs. Few patients like to be objectified, and when in a hospital, most desire empathy from their caregivers. It is for these reasons that the regular reaction to dehumanization in medicine is to condemn it outright. The medical establishment regularly institutes various forms of empathy-awareness programs. A curious observer might ask a more basic question: why is a lack of empathy a perennial problem in clinical settings in the first place? Why the perpetual need for empathy education? Certainly not every profession has these hurdles, nor requires such measures.
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Could compassion from your doctor help your healing process?
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A new study gives us insight on what cancer patients want from their doctors.
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Arguably the greatest attribute we can possess when working in the health care setting is empathy. Certainly we need to have the knowledge and abilities to get the job done correctly, but without empathy, all knowledge becomes useless. It is a trait that is most evident when it is missing from certain health care providers. While people will have their good and bad days, it is important to treat the patient with empathy and respect.
Clearly the benefits of empathetic listening go both ways, for the listener as well as the person being listened to. It is something that we should all pay attention to, especially people working in service-oriented professions. Even if it isn’t something that comes naturally, it can be improved with practice. The people you work with will appreciate it.
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That should not mean that doctors, nurses and other medical staff are unable to show their concern and sympathy to us as patients. Unfortunately, though, with our society so entrenched in a lawsuit mentality, these professionals are discouraged from showing basic empathy.
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I recently returned from Peter Breggin's Empathic Therapy Conference in Syracuse, NY. It was a phenomenal event, attended by nearly 200 physicians, psychologists, recovered mental health consumers, authors and advocates. It was inspiring to be surrounded by so many people who are dedicated to a humane and hopeful approach to help those who struggle with mental and emotional distress.
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Empathy is often seen as a nice — but nonessential — part of medicine. Indeed, for surgeons in the operating room, seeing the patient as a human being may actually be an obstacle to successful performance. At the bedside, however, doctors who are more empathetic actually have healthier patients, according to a new study published in the journal Academic Medicine.
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As has been mentioned multiple times in this blog, the issue of empathy among health professionals is very important. While students may enter medical school with the ability to empathize, less enter the workforce with this ability still in place. Indications are that students are taught to keep their emotions in check, perhaps even completely removed, when dealing with patients.
While this emotional-separation can prove vital in treating patients from a completely professional standpoint, it also puts patient interaction at risk. Now, a new study shows that students need not lose the ability. (img http://bit.ly/fpG2Ex)
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Doctors who are empathetic achieve better clinical results, a new study suggests. In the study, researchers from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia linked physicians' sympathy and compassion to the success of their treatment of patients with diabetes.
The study focused on 891 diabetic patients treated between 2006 and 2009 by 29 doctors at the school's department of family and community medicine. Prior to treatment, each of the physicians underwent a standardized test called the Jefferson Scale of Empathy, developed in 2001 to measure their empathy in the context of patient care.
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Is anyone else tired of hearing about how important empathy is in the doctor-patient relationship? Every other day it seems a new study is talking about the therapeutic value of empathy. Enough already!
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Purpose: This longitudinal study was designed to examine changes in medical students' empathy during medical school and to determine when the most significant changes occur.
Conclusions: It is concluded that a significant decline in empathy occurs during the third year of medical school. It is ironic that the erosion of empathy occurs during a time when the curriculum is shifting toward patient-care activities; this is when empathy is most essential. Implications for retaining and enhancing empathy are discussed.
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There is increasing evidence that emotionally-engaged physicians have greater therapeutic efficacy. This article poses the question: how can physicians empathize when feeling negatively toward their patients? The author draws on theoretical work, research and clinical studies to suggest some basic skills that physicians can develop to maintain empathy when they are involved in overt conflict with patients or otherwise experience negative feelings toward them.
Observational research shows that physicians miss most opportunities for empathy by restricting attention to facts, rather than to the emotional meanings of patients' words.
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Empathy is the hallmark of every nurse’s practice. It’s the concious act of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes in order to validate the patient’s emotions and thoughts, and to gain insight into their condition. It’s the foundation of therapeutic communication — nurse-speak for talking with your patients in a way that furthers and helps their treatment.
Or so we learned in nursing school, along with those other Nursing Virtues such as Active Listening and Compassion. But in practical terms is being empathetic with every patient all the time possible?
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Empathizing with patients often can help make them feel better, at least emotionally. But can it also result in measurably better outcomes in their health?
A new study from the Academic Medicine journal has put another brick in the wall of evidence shoring up the value of empathy. The research involved 891 patients with diabetes and 29 family physicians who were treating them. The doctors were asked to complete an assessment evaluating where they were on an empathy scale: high, moderate or low. Then they were compared against patient outcomes.
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When you have senior parents who need increasing support, empathy is critical. You try hard, and not always with success, to understand what they are experiencing. That’s called empathy.
The concept of empathy has received a bit of a bad rap the past year or two with politicians actually taking the time to deliver statements against looking at the world through an empathic lens (I could write an entire post just on these tactless quotes). During some U.S. Senate confirmation hearings for judges questions on empathy played a central, and I think somewhat silly, role.
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Empathy does play a key role in closing the racial gaps in US health care system, findings of a latest study published in ‘PAIN’ reveal.
Several earlier studies have indicated that immigrants in the US, especially blacks, face bias in getting treatment in the US health care system as compared to their US-born white counterparts.
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Listening is one of the most powerful communication skills around, but in this era of multi-tasking, many people forget how important it is. No one is immune to talking too much. It's only natural to want to explain your thoughts and opinions. But it's also important to hold back and listen.
When you don't truly listen, you can get out of touch with what is going on around you. People who have forgotten how to listen can become isolated and make the wrong decisions for their organization.
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Their longitudinal research study of 29 physicians over a 3 year period successfully quantified a relationship between empathy and positive treatment outcome. This suggests that physicians’ levels of empathy are strongly associated with their clinical effectiveness.
Empathy, as a core component of emotional intelligence, encompasses a range of skills in understanding, managing, and appropriately responding to the emotions and experiences of others. With the clinical importance of empathy being confirmed, the JMC researchers have also emphasised the importance of assessing and enhancing empathetic competencies in undergraduate and graduate medical education.
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The ability to empathize with a patient not only makes doctors more likable but improves the quality of care they provide, according to a report published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
And as with knowing what test to run or what treatment to prescribe, empathy is a skill doctors have to learn, some doctors say.
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We had a wonderful meeting at the first Empathy Healthcare Café.
We received so many comments like, "great Café", "what's next?" and "how can we keep this going?" Thank you to everyone that contributed time, energy, ideas, stories, video, supplies, resources, etc. to hosting the Café.
Below is the video of the Café.
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To measure how a physician's empathy impacted a diabetic patient's treatment, the researchers used hemoglobin A1c test results to measure the adequacy of blood glucose control according to national standards. They also analyzed the patients' LDL cholesterol level. They believed that there would be a direct association between a higher physician JSE score and a better control of patients' hemoglobin A1c and LDL cholesterol levels.
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It has been thought that the quality of the physician-patient relationship is integral to positive outcomes but until now, data to confirm such beliefs has been hard to find. Through a landmark study, a research team from Jefferson Medical College (JMC) of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, has been able to document that a physician's empathy is an important factor associated with clinical competence. (img http://bit.ly/dP1O76)
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