An excerpt from The Empathy Effect: Seven Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Differences. “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” What picture do you see when you read this quote from Mother Theresa? Do you see an orphaned child living in poverty?
How to preserve empathy in medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com.