Psychologist Melvin learner noticed that medical professionals could get worn down emotionally, and they would start turning people into biological machines. Is that still something that's on the minds of medical professionals to day? I think itis very much. Honor amind, i think weno e and we particular see that if you look at medical students and you look at the scales and measures of ampathy. And its nothing else you can think that those medical studens are our future doctors, so er we have a vested interest in attending to their emotional development.
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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