Quotes by : Danielle Ofri

What these older physicians exhibited is termed clinical curiosity. They stroke to understand their patients....

But while the patient does bear some responsibility, I believe that the onus falls more heavily on the....

How the sadness is handled by the physician has a powerful impact on the medical care received by the....

Burnout also leads to a large swath of physicians who aren't as empathetic toward their patients as they....

But I realized that not only did I need to keep tuning my skills as a doctor, I also had to figure out....

In general, empathy is easier the more we can identify with someone. When we can genuinely envision ourselves....

Empathy--the ability to identify with someone else's suffering--is certainly a prerequisite for a genuine....

Hospital life--with its byzantine array of moving parts layered atop the unpredictable rhythms of illness--is....

The very fact that these doctors continuing to be doctors--highly successful ones--despite their errors....

Grief ate at these doctors, distracting them from both their families and their patients. Many reported....