I Lost It, I Lost It, I Was in Awe

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"I owe this woman an incredible debt. Sure she was paid minimum wage, but she really impressed upon me what it means to be in a caring profession." "It's not just your professors and your books... They're all around you," says the doctor of more than 30 years.

In this episode, we talk to Danielle Ofri, a physician and author of "What Doctors Feel" - a book about the emotional lives of doctors and how compassion fatigue, biases, and other mental phenomena affect their decisions, their motivations, and their relationships with patients.

You'll also hear Ofri discuss emotional epidemiology, the viral-like spread of fear and other emotions that can lead to panics like those we've seen surrounding Ebola, the Swine Flu, SARS, and other illnesses.

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