Empathy and the failure to treat pain

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-172

  Passik, Steven D ^a   Byers, Karen ^a   Kirsh, Kenneth L ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers; Empathy; Pain; Undertreatment

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPATHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; NOTE; PAIN;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMPATHY; HUMANS; PAIN; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 34249692511     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951507070241     Document Type: Note

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