Why Doctors seem cold
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Dan Shapiro, Ph.D., head of Penn State College of Medicine's Department of Humanities, teaches young medical students about empathy. Here Shapiro tells Robert Lipsyte about how young doctors train. Western medical schooling values a split between the heart and head, he explains-though he admits he would go to a doctor who cries.
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