Dr. Pauline Chen's column this week in the New York Times examined a new study about empathy skills training published in Academic Medicine. Dr. Chen reflects on her own experiences and the prevailing attitude that bedside manner is either something you have or something you don't have. But the results of the study in Academic Medicine indicate training can have some effect on physicians of all experience levels. And young physicians can certainly learn from the examples of their attending physicians, for better or for worse.
But what does it mean? Can empathy be taught? Or is it something you either have or don't have? You can find the article here and comments here.
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