Association Between Physician Empathy and Difficult Patient Encounters: a Cross-Sectional Study.

Hiroki TamuraKiyoshi ShikinoDaichi SogaiDaiki YokokawaShun UchidaYu LiYasutaka YanagitaYosuke YamauchiJumpei KojimaKosuke IshizukaTomoko TsukamotoKazukata NodaTakanori UeharaTakahiro ImaizumiHitomi KataokaMasatomi Ikusaka

Published in: Journal of general internal medicine (2022)

Empathetic physicians were less likely to experience encounters as difficult. Empathy appears to be an important component of physician perception of encounter difficulty.

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