How Do Ada Doctors Cope With Their Emotions?

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Doctors work very long hours, especially early on, dealing with people in all these different conditions. How does that a affect judgment and decision making? How do ada doctors cope with that?

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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