What Makes a Good Doctor?

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i asked people to tell me what made you the doctor you are today. And i was really flooded with a ton of responses. They all talked about powerful experiences with their patients that alwayse e around a deep and resonant emotion. Nobody wrote about the differential diagnosis of propable pepora. You want someone you can trust, someone with a good judgment,. Someone who will listen to you, understand how you feel. That's how i started writing the book.

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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