What Is Clinical Empathy in Anesthesiology? Perspectives From Practicing Anesthesiologists
Although anesthesiologists interact with patients during some of the most emotionally charged and vulnerable situations when evaluating, monitoring, and supervising patient care, beginning preoperatively and continuing through their postoperative care, they do not view empathy behaviors fundamentally differently than other physician specialties. We discuss how these results can inform medical education communication and relational approaches by capitalizing on the understanding of anesthesiologists' conceptualizations of empathy.
Authors
- Judith Allen Hall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5840-2895)
- Mollie A. Ruben (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8918-8932)
- Richard Blum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0597-1423)
- Morgan D. Stosic (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7693-5521)
- Rachel Schwartz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3747-3819)
- Danielle Blanch‐Hartigan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4629-9824)
- Sunny Jeong
- Ryan Lam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7760-6508)
- Justin J. Sanders (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8928-4051)
- Elaine C. Meyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2309-8189)
- Fred Duong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4825-2744)
- David B. Waisel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5307-4092)
- Adele E. Weaver
Institutions
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Northeastern University (US)
- Bentley University (US)
- University of Rhode Island (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Boston Children's Museum (US)
- McGill University (CA)
- University of Maine (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- A&A Practice
- Published
- 2025-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1213/xaa.0000000000002045
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00