Empathy: A Timeless Skill for the Pain Medicine Toolbox

Empathy: a timeless skill for the pain medicine toolbox.

The timeless appeal of the image of a kindly physician at the bedside, portraying the special relationship of physician and patient sharing an illness experience, transcends more modern images of medicine, such as the masked doctor in scrub suit gloving for a procedure to fix a medical problem, a symbol of the technical isolation of doctor from patient. This empathic relationship, a principal t...

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Changing lives with empathy, compassion and skill.

She persuaded Vodacom Foundation Chairman, Mthobi Tyamzashe (himself born with a cleft lip), to sit in on one infant’s life-changing operation, in spite of his deep aversion to hospitals. To make doubly sure, Naiker got Vodacom’s then CEO, Alan Knott-Craig (who spent the first 5 years of his life in leg calipers and much later suffered a life-changing near-fatal heart attack), to attend a subse...

Pain Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not

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