From empathy to caring: Defining the ideal approach to a healing relationship

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 123-130

  Weiner, Saul J ^a   Auster, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SKILL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMPATHY; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION;

EMPATHY; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 48849105583     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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