Empathy is essential to effectively engaging patients as partners in care. Clinicians’ empathy is increasingly understood as a professional competency, a mode

This book investigates new insights into the factors influencing empathy in medical students. Addressing the widely perceived empathy gap in teaching and medica

In this thorough revision, updating, and expansion of his great 2007 book, Empathy in Patient Care, Professor Hojat offers all of us in healthcare education an

This timely book provides a focused approach for developing a challenging yet vital and necessary area for professional success in health care practitioners --

Suitable as a text for medical humanities courses and for a much wider readership, Peter Barritt has brought together a collection of ideas, thoughts and refere