“Hyperesthetic Neuralgia” and “Crawly Skin”: Poetry and Empathy in Medicine
The long list of empathy killers in medical practice is familiar: time constraints, financial imperatives, cross-cultural misunderstanding, interposed electronic health records, distancing telemedicine. Most alarmingly, now AI-based chatbots with their manufactured empathy threaten to supersede genuine human care. As these barriers between clinicians and patients grow, poetry can be critical in preserving the heartfelt empathy that joins us in healing. Many descriptive studies and some quantitative research support this assertion. Читать дальше...