In your book, you write about how medical professionals are aware of certain cognitive biases. You specifically mention things like the anchoring tan, some attribution errors and things like that. Do doctors take those biases into account and guardno, i think they don't notice. In thee. Theyre often unconscious biases. Yes, doctors tare human beings to as are their patients. And patients want to be recognized as human beings, and they should be. Doctors need to do thet part of that is recognizing their own humanity.
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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