Halpern Jodi
Division of Health and Medical Sciences, University of California, Berkeley-Berkeley, Calif 94720-1190, USA.
J Gen Intern Med. 2003 Aug;18(8):670-4. doi: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2003.21017.x.
Patients seek empathy from their physicians. Medical educators increasingly recognize this need. Yet in seeking to make empathy a reliable professional skill, doctors change the meaning of the term. Outside the field of medicine, empathy is a mode of understanding that specifically involves emotional resonance. In contrast, leading physician educators define empathy as a form of detached cognition. In contrast, this article argues that physicians' emotional attunement greatly serves the cognitive goal of understanding patients' emotions. This has important implications for teaching empathy.
患者期望从医生那里获得同理心。医学教育工作者越来越认识到这种需求。然而，在试图将同理心转变为一项可靠的专业技能时，医生们改变了这个术语的含义。在医学领域之外，同理心是一种理解模式，特别涉及情感共鸣。相比之下，主要的医生教育工作者将同理心定义为一种超脱的认知形式。相比之下，本文认为医生的情感协调对理解患者情绪的认知目标大有帮助。这对同理心教学具有重要意义。
