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Studying Shakespeare for empathy

Posted on April 5, 2021 by The Royal Society of Medicine

Studying Shakespeare could help medical students connect with patients: A palliative care doctor has suggested that studying Shakespeare’s plays could help medical students connect more closely with their patients. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Dr David Jeffrey, of the Department of Palliative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, investigates how the playwright’s empathic approach – the […]

Boosting empathy-based medicine

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Hippocratic Post

Technology should be used to boost empathy-based medicine, according to a new paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Existing digital technologies must be exploited to enable a paradigm shift in current healthcare delivery which focuses on tests, treatments and targets rather than the therapeutic benefits of empathy. Dr Jeremy Howick […]