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Can a professional physician be indifferent to patients?

What does it take for a medical professional to express at least the same level of empathy to patients we are accustomed to receive in a civilized environment? And consequently what do patients...

 Category: Compassion to patients, Doctors, Doctors know better, Empathy to patients, health as a business, Healthcare as a business, hospital's culture, medical education, Medical professionalism, Patient safety, patient satisfaction, Patients, Patients do not trust doctors, Patients Physcians Relationships, physicians' workload      Tags: , , , ,

Medical culture: can silence kill?

  I remember sitting in the Intensive Care Unit (ISU) attending a patient after cardio surgery. The usually quiet atmosphere of ISU was interrupted by electrifying fuss: the physician on duty...

 Category: health as a business, Healthcare as a business, hospital's culture, medical education, Medical Errors, medical hierarchy      Tags: , , , , , , , ,

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