Empathy In The Medical Field

They serve as pillars of wisdom and guidance while exhibiting communication adroitness with care teams and patients to engineer top-notch medical care. To maintain high standards, effective medical professionals are constantly taking in new information through continuing education, placing providers at the pinnacle of knowledge. Moreover, physicians require affective aptitude as they must convey empathy during patient interactions. All these attributes draw me to seek the personal challenge and resulting responsibilities that are demanded. I desire to become an important contribution to society in a field I am passionate

The care that I will give my patient will also involve being empathic. This will enhance the development of the therapeutic relationship that will finally improve the outcomes. Compassion and empathy will make my patients more forthcoming with their symptoms. This yields accurate diagnosis. It also improves care given to patients. The interaction that takes place during this process affects the patient's recovery process. I also intend to cultivate a culture of trust between me and my patients. It has to be there for me to realize effective therapeutic relationship that leads to job satisfaction.

Empathy gives us as clinicians the ability to understand and connect with the client’s emotions. By building a relationship with a client it gives the clinician a better perspective of the client’s thoughts and feelings. Emotions are not something you can leave at the door and pick up later, it reflects on the individual’s performance. By simply asking how their day is going can create a conversation, this way the client can express themselves and not keep their emotions bottled up. Empathy can be cognitive or emotionally based. Cognitive empathy is being able to know what another person feels and what he/she might be thinking.

A few of my foundational clinical skills strengths would encompass possessing a non judgmental demeanor, empathy, and genuineness. I have always had a nonjudgemental view going as far back as I could remember. Perhaps the reason stems from listening to extensive hours of gossip as a child during family events. I learned to despise conversations that focused on judging peoples reactions or behaviors. I believe this may be the leading reasons I can express empathy to others. In Fellers & R’s (2003) article, The importance of Empathy in the therapeutic alliance explains that empathy guides the therapist to evaluate the clients behavior and therefore be less judgmental. Empathy also leads to possessing a raw genuineness about one’s self

Open mindedness, a calm demeanor and empathy are key qualities that all physicians share and are strong components that go towards helping others control and overcome sickness. I want to be able to lend a helping hand to anybody regardless of sex, gender, race, age, or health status. True satisifaction is knowing that I was able to positively impact somebody's day or life. Physicians are advocates for public health issues and play a strong public role in the community. I look forward to participating in the community and along the way gaining the trust and developing strong relationships with my coworkers, patients and members of the surrounding

As a leader in a deployed environment, have you ever asked yourself the question, “I’m over here risking my life for these people, why aren’t they helping us find the bad guys?”, or “why can’t these people understand that we could complete this great project for them but they aren’t interested in helping themselves?!”, if so, then you likely found yourself looking across an empathy gap. Time and again we have failed in engagements due to an inability to take the perspective of other individuals. We have all seen examples of that young platoon leader engaging with local leaders in a disrespectful and counterproductive manner. As a lieutenant in Iraq during OIF I, I walked into engagements the exact same way, heavy-handed, dictatorial, and uninterested

In Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams, the author uses a conversational style to express her main focuses about the idea of empathy, how we feel other people’s pain, and how we identify with it. The author uses her own personal experiences of going through two different surgeries to describe her pain and the responses of the people around her. Her experiences support her argument that voiced empathy isn’t enough but we need to have compassion and understanding. She also argues empathy isn’t as simple as asking a checklist of questions. For example, she states, “Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us…it’s a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves” (Jamison 28). There is a process to acknowledge the

In this paper, I argue that watching Star Trek: The Next Generation cultivates empathy. Empathy is a

The physician speakers identified many traits of a good physician, including responsible, empathetic, hard-working, trustworthy, and the list goes on. When looking at all of these characteristics, it is easy to think that a physician is essentially an ideal and well-rounded person who is intelligent and has good morals. However, we have been taught at a young age that nobody is perfect, so are physicians an exception? I think while being a pre-med student, it is easy to get lost in the idea of a physician and forget that they are people with strengths and weaknesses too. Despite this, after listening to all the speakers, I’ve noticed a few common characteristics of a good physician, which are dedicated, compassionate, and collaborative.

Nevertheless, put aside of the attributes I possess, I am unable to separate empathy from sympathy. I am a very emotional person. But human service providers should have the ability of not being affected by clients’ emotions beyond understanding. Otherwise, the helping professional will not only be burned out easily, but also unable to solve customers’ problems effectively. Thus, I will keep working on distinguish empathy, which is being understanding, from sympathy, which is putting myself in the client’s positions.

In this annotated bibliography, I will summarize three articles from peer-reviewed journals in nursing. Also, I will be examining limitations to each study and how it relates to my own learning. Lastly, I will be reflecting on how relevant the article is to my own growth toward becoming a future registered nurse, and how I can apply this new knowledge into practice

Problem solver’s empathy decreases with patients eventually. Empathy demonstrates core professional values which are essential but, because of working hard, stress and level of burnout among caregivers or problem solvers. Lack of empathy becomes obvious in comparison with expected percentage of side effects of this position before recruiting. So, caregivers or problem solvers should start care more about their own physical health, social life, and emotional well-being, so they start taking care of their essential

Empathy is defined as the ability to communicate an understanding of a client’s feelings, and is a crucial component of the helping relationship (Boggs. 2011, p.106). Empathy is an essential concept to nursing practice as it allows the nurse to gain perspective in order to provide appropriate actions and interventions significant to that patient’s individual experience. In Tilda Shalof’s “A Nurses’ Story”, the author, a registered nurse in the intensive care unit (ICU), struggles with a particularly difficult patient case and must reflect upon her own values and subsequent judgments in order to provide adequate nursing care.

Social Justice is defined as “the equal distribution of opportunities, rights, and responsibility despite differences in physical traits and/or beliefs and behavior. It is an international and multifaceted issue that fights for better treatment and equality of people.” (“Pachamama Alliance,” 2017). According to this definition, my understanding of social justice is that it is a way to advocate for other individuals in order to assist their needs in society. For example, I would want to advocate for Hispanic mothers and children who have been through abuse. My empathy towards this group started because of my personal history with an abusive father who suffered from alcoholism. “Empathy involves thinking about a person and the challenges he or she is facing and coming to understand what it is like for that person to have that experience.” (Cameron & Keenan, 2013, p. 72).

Another crucial interpersonal skill which assumes a critical part in a radiographer- patient relationship is empathy. Eunson (2012) describes empathy as the emotional appreciation of another’s feelings. Not to be confused as sympathy, but empathetic people might squeeze ones hand in times of trouble, or offer kind words when one is grieving. According to research, empathy is ‘to recognise others' emotions, the reason for these emotions, and to have the capacity to take part in the emotional journey of a single person without directly be coming apart of it’ (Casselden, 1988). Needless to say,