There are at least two considerations here: the patient’s perception of a physician’s empathic expression and the physician’s level of comfort with expressing empathy and attending to patients’ emotions.
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10.1001/virtualmentor.2015.17.2.ecas1-1502.
Dr J. Corey Williams joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Ashley Andreou and Susan M. Cheng: “How Should We Approach Faculty Who Create Hostile Learning Environments for Underrepresented Students and Trainees?”
Dr Esha Bansal joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Saran Kunaprayoon and Linda P. Zhang: “Opportunities for Global Health Diplomacy in Transnational Robotic Telesurgery.”
Federal regulations governing egg donation fall into two categories: safety testing and truth in advertising. Neither deals directly with informed consent by, for example, specifying what information donors must be given.