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Empathy and Good Healthcare Practice
Lissana: I'm interested in some of the experiments you've done where you've compared what medical people and non-medical people do. Even things like stitching up a wound on a kind of fake arm. Jeremy: We don't define empathy as actually trying to feel the emotion although that does happen to some degree we train people to be emotionally curious or regulate themselves throughout those tasks. Lissana: The amazing thing was the oldest students who were now under wards, unrotations. They were the ones who were able to regulate their empathy in these tasks and they were doing the tasks better in these more medicalised contexts.
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