Do You Know When a Patient Will Come Back?

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I think that doctors aditionally look at addressing their feelings as a sign of weakness, and so tend to ignore them. And then we know that some time later, they will always come back. There is a study that i look at in my book about oncologists and who face death a lot. One doctor wrote, it was like a shadow that they know follows you around. So i think we hade to agin recognize that this is a reality. To pretend that it's not its is just folly"

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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