The concept of empathy has received a lot of attention in the past few decades in public
media, academia, national and international politics, arts, ethics, health professions …

OBJECTIVE: There is a growing amount of empirical research on empathy in medicine. This
critical review assesses methodological limitations in this body of research that have not …

In response to the articles in this issue about measuring physician empathy by Hojat and
colleagues, Di Lillo and colleagues, and Kataoka and colleagues, this commentary further …

Objective The objective was to provide a synthesis of already synthesized literature on
empathy in order to identify similarities and differences among conceptualizations. Methods …

No consensus on the definition of empathy exists. Empathy has been described as
emotional and spontaneous, cognitive and deliberate, or some combination of the two …

OBJECTIVE: To establish sound empirical evidence that clinical empathy (abbreviated as
CE) is a core element in the clinician–patient relationship with profound therapeutic …

Objective To summarize the predictors and outcomes of empathy by health care personnel,
methods used to study their empathy, and the effectiveness of interventions targeting their …

It is hard to reconcile the fresh faced idealism and altruistic aspirations of candidates at
interview for medical school, or the optimism shown by junior medical students in their early …

Medical practice is a particularly important yet challenging setting for empathy. Empathy is
necessary because patients may be reluctant to discuss, or may not be able to identify, their …

Objective This study examined perspectives regarding the use of empathy within medicine
and developed a model to demonstrate the components of empathy in a medical setting …