Empathy in Clinical Practice: How Individual Dispositions, Gender, and Experience Moderate Empathic Concern, Burnout, and Emotional Distress in Physicians

Gleichgerrcht, Ezequiel; Decety, Jean

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061526

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Empathy in Clinical Practice: How Individual Dispositions, Gender, and Experience Moderate Empathic Concern, Burnout, and Emotional Distress in Physicians

Published in PLoS ONE • Apr 19, 2013

Authors:

Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht

Jean Decety

Abstract

To better understand clinical empathy and what factors can undermine its experience and outcome in care-giving settings, a large-scale study was conducted with 7,584 board certified practicing physicians. Online validated instruments assessing different aspects of empathy, distress, burnout, altruis...

Subject

Empathic concern

Burnout

Personal distress

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