Mar 26, 2025 · Empathy’s impact. In the April 2024 issue of JAMA Network Open, we reported that patients treated by very empathic physicians had better outcomes than those treated by …

Jan 15, 2020 · In medicine, empathy is sometimes defined as a communication skill or as an emotional experience in which physicians identify and transiently experience their patients’ …

Doctors face many challenges in their daily balancing act between individual and structural conditions that may affect empathy. In order to maintain and further develop empathy, doctors …

As empathy gains importance within academia, we propose this review as an attempt to bring clarity upon the diverse and widely debated definitions and conceptions of empathy within the …

Jul 8, 2015 · One recent empathy-training program, called “Empathetics,” developed by Helen Riess of Harvard Medical School, incorporates strategies for helping doctors handle difficult …

Oct 3, 2017 · Studies have shown that when physicians behave empathically, patients are more satisfied, trust them more, adhere better to treatment recommendations, file fewer malpractice …

It is acknowledged that empathy plays a critical role in the physician-patient relationship and has a positive impact on health outcomes. However, as the field of empathy expands, the lack of …

Dec 13, 2021 · Academic health-care institutions such as teaching hospitals should improve their programs to support the doctors’ communication skills, and flood the system with empathetic …

Mar 28, 2025 · Empathetic medical care also correlates with greater adherence to treatment – patients are more likely to follow doctors’ advice when they feel understood and cared for. …

Jul 29, 2020 · Effective, empathetic communication is one of the most important skills to have as a physician — and is key to creating a better medical culture. But empathy can erode over …