Walking a fine line: Is it possible to remain an empathic physician and have a hardened heart?

Establishing an empathic physician-patient relationship is an essential physician skill. This chapter discusses the sexually dimorphic aspects of the neural components involved in affective and cognitive empathy, and examines why men and women medical students or physicians express different levels...

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Main Author: Bruce W. Newton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00233/full