• Perspect. Biol. Med. · Jan 2008

    Beyond empathy.

    • Richard Sobel.
    • School of Applied Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. enriso@bezeqint.net
    • Perspect. Biol. Med. 2008 Jan 1;51(3):471-8.

    AbstractEmpathy is a highly desirable trait in a physician, but the term means different things to different people. Rather than focus on empathy, it may be more fruitful to consider the individual ingredients of a successful patient-physician engagement: scientific competency, imagination (the basis of empathy), caring about the patient, attentive (nonjudgmental) listening to the person's story, and skill in rewriting the illness story. The cardinal skill, on a sound base of scientific competence, is imagination. A successful engagement has beneficial consequences for physicians as well as patients.

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