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DR ERROL N BENJAMIN IS THE allegation recently in the media of GPs claiming to be specialists a symptom of how the old-time self-respect that we once valued, to mean a sense of remorse over wrongdoing, is now something of an anachronism? It may be accepted that all of us in our vulnerability as humans,
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...