Empathy is often seen as a natural and essential part of the patient encounter—but reality tends to look quite different. A new doctoral thesis from Umeå University describes how not only time ...

Healthcare workers and patients feel more warmth from AI-generated medical responses than from actual doctors, a surprising analysis of 15 studies shows. The largest study examined 2,164 patient ...

Over half of U.S. adults are using large language models (LLMs)—such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot—in some capacity. Whether ...

A recent study published in The Lancet projects that three-quarters of Americans will be obese by 2050. Some medical schools are trying to teach the next generation of pediatricians to talk about ...

Dear Doctors: I am a junior in college. I enjoy being around people, so I live in the dorms. Last year, my roommate was depressed, and I also got to feeling down. This year, the girl I live with is ...

Compassion, selflessness, empathy and humanity have always been at the heart of healthcare. Long before resumes, prerequisites or application cycles, patients relied on healthcare professionals ...

This is how the bottom drops out of your world in 10 seconds. It's the sound of your doctor telling you, "I'm sorry." That is how Mary Elizabeth Williams, award-winning journalist and author, ...

The aim of this research was to compare general practitioners and specialist doctors’ empathy and cognitive flexibility levels along with their interpersonal relationship styles. Research participants ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - During an appointment with his doctor, a man diagnosed with lung cancer sounded dispirited when talking about what cigarettes had done to him. "I was always told I had a good ...