Empathy : real stories to inspire and enlighten busy clinicians / Daniel E. Epner. MD, FACP Professor Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation, and Integrative Medicine The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epner, Daniel E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physician and patient.

Empathy.

Physician-Patient Relations.

Communication.

empathy.

Medical Subjects:

Physician-Patient Relations.

Empathy.

Communication.

Physical Description:

xli, 251 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, 2022.

Summary:

"Empathy: Real Stories to Inspire and Enlighten Busy Clinicians helps you approach tough conversations with patients in a new, more effective way--by imagining what patients and their families may be thinking and feeling, and then communicating that recognition clearly and confidently. The authors use stories to illustrate what empathy looks and sounds like on an operational level rather than a theoretical, scientific, or conceptual level and provide the actionable advice you need to make empathy the central focus when faced with challenging scenarios, such as "denial," questions about prognosis, existential concerns, difficult family dynamics, anger, and nonmedical opiate use. The viewpoints presented are drawn from a diverse group of clinicians from a variety of medical disciplines, including oncology, palliative medicine, pediatrics, psychology, chaplaincy, and ophthalmology. Each chapter is anchored by a true but anonymized story that clearly illustrates how empathy can unfold in the clinical setting. Vignettes throughout provide sample dialogue and examples of actual words and phrases that help clinicians connect with patients under the most trying circumstances"-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Logic only takes you so far: the power of emotional connection

Code blue

Safe and empathic approach to opioid use through the lens of a palliative care physician

A son's duty

My soul is bleeding

Sticking by my patients, no matter what

Tell me stories

Paying it forward

The last vestige of control

Only 4 of 6 cycles

Going the extra mile

Just do what you do

Art imitates life

Data synthesis in the pursuit of personhood

The backstory is really the front story

The angel on my shoulder

A brief clinician's guide to empathic expression.

Notes:

Included index.

ISBN:

9781260473414

1260473414

OCLC:

1295110718