Ramnath is a professor of medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and a pulmonologist at UC San Diego Health. I sat at the bedside of a friend who drifted in and out of ...
Physicians who treat patients are potentially exposed to two opposing psychological processes: A positive feeling related to the experience of helping someone in need and, on the other hand, the ...
Dear Doctors: I am a junior in college. I enjoy being around people, so I live in the dorms. Last year, my roommate was depressed, and I also got to feeling down. This year, the girl I live with is ...
A recent study published in The Lancet projects that three-quarters of Americans will be obese by 2050. Some medical schools are trying to teach the next generation of pediatricians to talk about ...
This is how the bottom drops out of your world in 10 seconds. It's the sound of your doctor telling you, "I'm sorry." That is how Mary Elizabeth Williams, award-winning journalist and author, ...
The aim of this research was to compare general practitioners and specialist doctors’ empathy and cognitive flexibility levels along with their interpersonal relationship styles. Research participants ...
Pediatricians historically have not had much instruction on how to deal with childhood obesity. But now medical schools are starting to train their students on leading with empathy. A recent study ...
Dear Doctors: I am a junior in college. I enjoy being around people, so I live in the dorms. Last year, my roommate was depressed, and I also got to feeling down. This year, the girl I live with is ...