Hospitality to Strangers: Empathy and the Physician-Patient Relationship

ISBN-13: 9780788506031 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 176 str.

Dorothy M. Owens

Opis

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 education. Dr. Owens's unique approach to empathy is applicable to other professional and personal relationships as well.

Recenzje

Dr. Owens' book translates the human chemistry of empathetic communication that interdigitates patient welfare and physician initiative. She treats the subject of feeling through psychology and theology in ways clinically useful and programmatically interesting. The willingness and ability to communicate is integral to empathy and a proper physician/patient relationship. The model is useful, the substance interesting and the activity generally helpful to an understanding leading to evaluation and a proper course of action.