Making space for empathy: Supporting doctors in the emotional labour of clinical care Ethics in Clinical Practice

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Kerasidou, Angeliki ^a   Horn, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotional detachment; Emotional over involvement; Empathy; Professionalism

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BURNOUT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPATHY; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; WELLBEING; EMOTION; ETIOLOGY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MENTAL STRESS; ORGANIZATION; PHYSICIAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROFESSIONALISM; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONALISM; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85000634213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12910-016-0091-7     Document Type: Review

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