Physician's empathy directly associated with positive clinical outcomes
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 23:30
in Health & Medicine
It has been thought that the quality of the physician-patient relationship is integral to positive outcomes but until now, data to confirm such beliefs has been hard to find. Researchers have now been able to quantify a relationship between physicians' empathy and their patients' positive clinical outcomes, suggesting that a physician's empathy is an important factor associated with clinical competence.
