“People tend to believe that you are either born with empathy or not,” said Dr. Helen Riess, lead author of the study. “But empathy can be taught, and you can improve.”...Responses to this study have so far been enthusiastic....“We are in a special place in the history of medicine,” she said. “We have the neurophysiology data that validates and helps move medicine back to a real balance between the science and the art.”
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/can-doctors-learn-empathy/?ref=health
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