The Effects of More Compassion on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

One third of patients that go through the experience of critical illness in an i c u end up making diagnostic criteria for p t s d at thirty days. So perhaps compassion for people while they're going through terrifying medical emergencies can actually help them with their psychological effects down the road. There's an opportunity cost argument to this, rightfor if we're going to spend a lot of time teaching and or focusing on these kind of softer skills, does the science suffer?