By Mohammadreza Hojat. 295 pp. New York, Springer, 2007. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-387-33607-7.
To the busy physician, increasingly squeezed by the demandsof managed care and distanced from patients by tests and technologies,empathy might seem like a luxury or an irrelevance. The conceptitself can seem vague and impractical. Empathy is sometimesviewed as a kind of emotional incontinence that impairs clinicalobjectivity, or as the sole preserve of the nursing staff. Theauthor of this book disagrees, arguing that empathy is not onlya critical ingredient in patient care but also something thatcan be defined, measured, and investigated. Mohammadreza Hojat,a prominent researcher in medical education, makes the casethat . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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