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Expanding clinical empathy: an activist perspective.

Rebecca Garden1

  • 1Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA. gardenr@upstate.edu

Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Summary

Improving clinical empathy requires focusing on the patient's experience of illness. Strategies should empower patients, include actions to relieve suffering, and consider the social context of their condition.

Area of Science:

  • Medical Humanities
  • Clinical Communication
  • Patient-Centered Care

Background:

  • Empathy in healthcare fosters therapeutic communication and physician satisfaction.
  • Current discussions often prioritize the physician's experience over the patient's illness experience.
  • Many approaches lack actionable strategies for alleviating patient suffering.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore methods for enhancing clinical empathy.
  • To shift the focus of empathy towards the patient's lived experience of illness.
  • To integrate an action component into empathetic care.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of educational methods like reflective writing and literary studies.
  • Examination of theoretical approaches to empathy.

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  • Review of clinical practice suggestions.

    • Main Results:

    • Patient authority in first-person illness accounts is crucial.
    • Expanding empathy to include action for suffering relief is key.
    • Considering the social context of illness enhances empathetic understanding.

    Conclusions:

    • Clinical empathy can be enhanced by validating patient narratives.
    • Incorporating an action-oriented component addresses patient suffering more effectively.
    • Extending empathy to the patient's social context deepens care.