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Overthrowing barriers to empathy in healthcare: empathy in the age of the Internet.

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Empathy-based medicine re-establishes relationship as the heart of healthcare. Practitioners often complain that their capacity to practise empathically is undermined by ‘tyrannical guidelines’, insufficient time and an ever-increasing burden of paperwork. Clinicians often see this system as lacking empathy – uninterested in practitioners’ perspectives, health or welfare. Within this context, it is unsurprising that NHS staff have significant work-related stress and ill health. As a result...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1177/0141076817714443

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
Role:
Author
Publisher:
SAGE Publications Publisher's website
Journal:
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Journal website
Publication date:
2017-06-01
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EISSN:
1758-1095
ISSN:
0141-0768
Pmid:
28654757
Language:
English
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pubs:702283
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uuid:87bca655-d40f-426b-80fe-3c1715fad776
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pubs:702283
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702283
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2017-09-02

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