Medical students lose their empathy – here’s what can be done about it
Jeremy Howick, The Conversation, 23 April 2023 A lack of empathy in healthcare can be disastrous. In the UK, between 2005 and 2009, hundreds of avoidable deaths occurred at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The Francis report, which investigated the causes of the failings, concluded that a lack of empathy contributed to the catastrophe. More recently, dozens of tragic, unnecessary […]
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