Physician empathy associated with lower rates of diabetes complications
I’ll admit that I’ve not yet read this journal article to form my own conclusions, but I found the headline interesting nonetheless. Here is a link to the NY Times article and a link to the original journal article in the Journal of Academic Medicine. It makes intuitive sense… if your physician has a higher level of empathy, you are more likely to form a positive treatment relationship, and the patient is thus more likely to find meaningful and useful treatment recommendati