Yeah," says the patient, "and I guess I'm feeling like my life is over."
"I see. Worried and sad, too." "That's it, Doctor."
Contrast that exchange with one where right after the patient gets teary talking about the lump in her breast, the doctor starts running briskly through a checklist of impersonal, detailed clinical questions-with not so much as a nod toward her teary feelings.
The patient in that second encounter will be likely to leave feel ing unheard and uncared about. But after that first, more empathic interaction, the patient-despite having had the same amount of distress-would feel better: understood and cared for.
Those two scenarios were used to illustrate this crucial difference in an article for physicians on how to build empathy with their patients.23 The title of the article features an empathy-building phrase: "Let me see if I have this right ..." It argues that taking just a few moments to pay attention to how a patient feels about her illness builds emotional connection.
Not listening is at the top of the list of complaints patients have about their physicians. For their part, many physicians complain they are not given the time they need with their patients and so the human side of their interaction gets short shrift. The barrier to human contact rises as physicians-mandated to keep digital records-tap notes on a computer keyboard during patient inter views, and so end up communing with their laptop rather than with the patient.
Yet personal moments with patients, many physicians say, are the most satisfying part of their day. Such rapport between doc tor and patient greatly increases diagnostic accuracy and how the patients comply with their doctor's instructions, and enhances pa tients' satisfaction and loyalty.;,Empathy, the ability to connect with patients-in a deep sense,
Yeah," says the patient, "and I guess I'm feeling like my life is over."
"I see. Worried and sad, too." "That's it, Doctor."
Contrast that exchange with one where right after the patient gets teary talking about the lump in her breast, the doctor starts running briskly through a checklist of impersonal, detailed clinical questions-with not so much as a nod toward her teary feelings.
The patient in that second encounter will be likely to leave feel ing unheard and uncared about. But after that first, more empathic interaction, the patient-despite having had the same amount of distress-would feel better: understood and cared for.
Those two scenarios were used to illustrate this crucial difference in an article for physicians on how to build empathy with their patients.23 The title of the article features an empathy-building phrase: "Let me see if I have this right ..." It argues that taking just a few moments to pay attention to how a patient feels about her illness builds emotional connection.
Not listening is at the top of the list of complaints patients have about their physicians. For their part, many physicians complain they are not given the time they need with their patients and so the human side of their interaction gets short shrift. The barrier to human contact rises as physicians-mandated to keep digital records-tap notes on a computer keyboard during patient inter views, and so end up communing with their laptop rather than with the patient.
Yet personal moments with patients, many physicians say, are the most satisfying part of their day. Such rapport between doc tor and patient greatly increases diagnostic accuracy and how the patients comply with their doctor's instructions, and enhances pa tients' satisfaction and loyalty.;,Empathy, the ability to connect with patients-in a deep sense,
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