Empathetic Practice: The Struggle and Virtue of Empathizing with a Patient's Suffering

Hastings Center Report 49 (2):17-25 (2019)
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Abstract

Empathy is sometimes so hard to achieve that one may wonder if it is a virtue for caregivers at all. Perhaps a caregiver cannot always know how a patient feels, and perhaps that knowledge is sometimes too painful to possess. A nuanced understanding of what empathy entails and of the conditions for attaining it can help ground its possibility.

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