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Hospitality to Strangers: Empathy and the Physician-Patient Relationship

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Hospitality to Strangers: Empathy and the Physician-Patient Relationship - Owens, Dorothy M
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In an era of transition and tension in American health care, Dorothy M. Owens offers a model of empathic communication that benefits both patients and physicians. Drawing from concepts in the domains of psychology and theology, she constructs a model of empathy that is ethical and reciprocal. An integrated model of empathy recognizes the physical, psychological, spiritual, and social nature of human beings. Empathy is a clinically useful, time-effective communication skill that can be taught in medical and pastoral ...

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Hospitality to Strangers: Empathy and the Physician-Patient Relationship 1999, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780788506031

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