The works of William Shakespeare should be built into the medical undergraduate curriculum to teach students how to connect more closely with their patients, a doctor suggests.
Dr David Jeffrey, a palliative care doctor at the University of Edinburgh, is calling for more emotional connections in clinical practice to improve doctor-patient relations interactions over the world.
Currently, doctors can distance themselves from patients, avoiding emotions by focusing on biomedical facts – a process described as detached concern .
But doctors should arguably be breaking down this emotional barrier for the benefit of their patients, potentially when they re suffering from distressing illnesses, Dr Jeffrey suggests.
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