The Importance of Empathy in Recovery

When I first went into residency, I think I'm trying to remember when I asked this question to somebody or said, do you like all of your patients? And the answer that I know in my mind now many years later is yes, eventually I do. The other piece about it is we're humans. We need to be humans together in this. We don't that need to necessarily have those experiences, but we need to understand the deep meaning of the experience to the patient and why it is that way. So empathy being genuine being like a for real person, having a sense positive regard for this human across from you can lead to better outcomes.