I'm Afraid to Reveal That Vulnerability, and I Need an Emotional Response

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You can have a very incompetent or with great inepersonal skills. I think mostly most doctors are probably reasonably competent, but the doctors whom we really feel comfortable with are those who have tho additional skills. To even a to present yourself as a vulnerable, emotional human being, sometimes to a doctor, has haid something that doctors understand. And is it a, is this a thisi agree with it with i'm sure many you know i'm talking about. Yo.

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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