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Empathy
January 10, 2017 at 8:52 am
Heard this on the radio yesterday ( not a direct quote) :
Empathy is feeling the emotions and pain of others. Empathy is exhausting and leads to burn out. The best doctors are not those that feel constant empathy but those that have a passion and joy in caring for others.
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RE: Empathy
January 10, 2017 at 8:59 am
Agree, but it's not like I really care or anything.
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RE: Empathy
January 10, 2017 at 9:57 am
My dad was regarded as a very good doctor, and he seems to have very little empathy. He's leaning heavily towards the narcissistic/psycopathic end of the spectrum. He told me once that he only became a doctor because of the respect he'd get for being in that position. If I didn't look so much like my mum I'd think I was adopted.
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RE: Empathy
January 10, 2017 at 10:56 am
That's why I could never be a doctor or a veterinarian (and also why I can't even as much as step foot in an animal shelter).
It would seriously destroy me.
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RE: Empathy
January 10, 2017 at 11:01 am
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RE: Empathy
January 10, 2017 at 1:19 pm
In med school, MD's get trained to focus more on the illness/condition. This one is the colon cancer, the next one is the diabetic and then we'll go on to the COPD case. They are seen in terms of the disease/treatment. I'm not sue that they could make it with out that sort of detachment.
This does not make them uncaring or unfeeling, just fosters that appearance.
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RE: Empathy
January 10, 2017 at 1:27 pm
Empathy is useless if you can't actually use it to help people.
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RE: Empathy
January 10, 2017 at 10:30 pm
Empathy doesn't help people.
It just allows a person to understand how another person is feeling.
In some ways its a tool.
It's related to "Theory of mind" which describes our ability to not only have ideas, intents, drives, desires, but realize that other people also have ideas, intents, drives, and desires.
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RE: Empathy
January 13, 2017 at 12:03 am
(January 10, 2017 at 10:56 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: That's why I could never be a doctor or a veterinarian (and also why I can't even as much as step foot in an animal shelter).
It would seriously destroy me.
I volunteered in one for community service long ago it was kind of fun but yeah you just wanted to take every animal home still drop by on an odd weekend if there really short handed my current favorite denizen is a fennec fox named Mojo and if you don't know what a fennec fox is here
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