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How to Be More Self-Compassionate as a Doctor
There's excellent evidence to show that you can only be as compassionate with your patients as you are with yourself. Most doctors in fact are not very good at self-compassion and so training in this can not only help us internally with how we cope with failure but I think it can actually make us better doctors. That's ultimately what gives you a lot of satisfaction in being a doctor, if you can get an emotional connection with your patient.