Quotes by : Danielle Ofri

Suddenly, I was plunged back into an avid learning environment, starting at the bottom and working my....

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

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio describes emotions as the "continuous musical line of our minds, the unstoppable....

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

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....

But at the most basic level, doctors need to be able to come forward with their errors and near-misses,....

It can be rough going to maintain both composure and empathy in these situations, but a doctor's failure....

Empathy requires being attuned to the patient's perspective and understanding how the illness is woven....