Monday, January 07, 2008

Oncologists and empathy

From the New York Times article "For Cancer Patients, Empathy Goes a Long Way":

“It is absolutely the role of the oncologist” to provide a bit of emotional support, said Dr. James A. Tulsky, director of the Center for Palliative Care at Duke University Medical Center.

But in a study published last month in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Dr. Tulsky and other researchers found that doctors and patients weren’t communicating all that well about emotions.

Click here to read the article.

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