What does it cost to care? Contemporary debates about medicine and the health system often return to this question through the language of burnout, emotional labor, and clinical detachment. Yet the problem is far from modern. At the beginning of the Hippocratic treatise De flatibus, a speech intended to be delivered before an audience and…
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Even Superman Cries (Part 4): Conclusion to Emotions in Medicine
Jordan Babando // Imagine a friend of yours comes to you for relationship advice. The issue that is presented to you involves your friend’s significant other telling them they are not allowed to express emotions. Your friend is made to feel like any noticeable emotion would make their partner and anyone else around them feel…