empathy Archives

Stanford University School of Medicine blog

What I learned about hospitals as a trauma patient

The new Stanford Hospital is equipped for digitally-driven health care guided by empathy, writes Stanford Health Care CEO David Entwistle.

When health professionals have empathy, patients aren’t the only ones who benefit

Empathy is a skill that physicians can learn and, writes Dean Lloyd Minor, it’s definitely a skill worth learning.

Empathy in medicine: What we can learn from children

What can be done to help medical students develop emotional connectedness and empathy with their patients? The answer could lie in revisiting childhood.