In the fast-paced world of medical education, where the learning process can feel akin to drinking from a firehose, one ...

Kimberly Kopecky, M.D., MSCI, a UAB surgeon specializing in high-risk abdominal procedures, created The Empathy Project to help trainees improve at having tough conversations with patients and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Physician empathy has long been recommended — but not required — in the doctor-patient relationship. However, ...

Meet Dr. Lorinda Torres Rodgers, an MDVIP-affiliated physician in The Colony who delivers personalized, compassionate primary care built on time, trust and empathy.

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 ...

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 ...

From “pajama time” spent responding to patient messages to debates over internet misinformation, here is why your doctor is ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - During an appointment with his doctor, a man diagnosed with lung cancer sounded dispirited when talking about what cigarettes had done to him. "I was always told I had a good ...

There is indeed evidence to suggest that some therapeutic conversations with chatbots, with sufficient guardrails, can have ...