Lisa Rosenbaum, "The Downside of Doctors Who Feel Your Pain"

Around the U.S. a revolution of new ideas in the world of health care is revolving around a simple idea - sympathy.
Lisa Rosenbaum, the author of this article, is a doctor who is one of these sympathetic doctors.

Despite that Rosenbaum thinks too much sympathy can take away from skill. The audience is directed towards the medical schools who are turning the tables and looking for students with a compassionate heart, not a cold, reserved one.

However, a cold, reserved doctor could know what they're doing, maybe even better than the other doctor who pays full attention to the patient and immerses themselves into that patient's problems.

The time and place the world is at now is more of a humanitarian view, rather than the "old-fashioned" hard worker.

Rosenburg speaks in a worried tone, which is directed towards the futures of the new, young doctors.

Although my own personal view of this is to have a compassionate doctor, I believe that they should be equally skilled and confident in their abilities.

A doctor shouldn't feel so much sorrow, however, over one lost patient. What matters is the 1,000 lives saved versus the 1 life lost.

So, to a degree, a doctor shouldn't lose their nerve, but attend to all their patients in a comforting but not too intrusive way.

Balance is the key. Too much of one ability weakens the other's capabilities.

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