Sobel Richard
School of Applied Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
Perspect Biol Med. 2008 Summer;51(3):471-8. doi: 10.1353/pbm.0.0036.
Empathy is a highly desirable trait in a physician, but the term means different things to different people. Rather than focus on empathy, it may be more fruitful to consider the individual ingredients of a successful patient-physician engagement: scientific competency, imagination (the basis of empathy), caring about the patient, attentive (nonjudgmental) listening to the person's story, and skill in rewriting the illness story. The cardinal skill, on a sound base of scientific competence, is imagination. A successful engagement has beneficial consequences for physicians as well as patients.
同理心是医生非常需要具备的一种特质，但这个词对不同的人来说含义不同。与其关注同理心，不如考虑成功的医患互动的各个要素，可能会更有成效：科学能力、想象力（同理心的基础）、关心患者、专注（不带评判）地倾听患者的故事，以及重新构建病情故事的技巧。在扎实的科学能力基础上，最关键的技能是想象力。成功的互动对医生和患者都有有益的影响。
