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Why Is There No True, Empathic Patient Engagement or Is There?”

Healthcare professionals have entered a field where empathy, compassion, and an ability to relate well to patients are implicitly mandated.

“Deaf” Physicians’ Failure to Listen to Seriously Ill Patients

Too often, women’s medical concerns face a healthcare bias; lack of belief. When this happens, as in a recent case of ovarian cancer, the final...

Freedom May Be Anxiety-Provoking, So Should We Avoid It?

One of the foremost psychoanalysts, Erich Fromm, wrote a provocative book many decades ago outlining how freedom related to anxiety.

How Transactional Medicine Threatens the Future of Your Health

Patients rarely describe healing in technological terms. They speak instead about whether someone listened, if their physician remembered them and how their concerns were...