{"id":2492,"date":"2020-05-15T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:25:25","slug":"why-you-should-stop-practicing-empathy-and-start-feeling-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/why-you-should-stop-practicing-empathy-and-start-feeling-it","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Stop Practicing Empathy and Start Feeling It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">In This Article<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/why-you-should-stop-practicing-empathy-and-start-feeling-it\/#What_am_I_talking_about\" >What am I talking about?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/why-you-should-stop-practicing-empathy-and-start-feeling-it\/#Why_should_we_bother\" >Why should we bother?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/why-you-should-stop-practicing-empathy-and-start-feeling-it\/#If_youve_made_it_this_far_keep_your_mind_wide_open\" >If you\u2019ve made it this far, keep your mind wide open!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/why-you-should-stop-practicing-empathy-and-start-feeling-it\/#Dont_lose_sight%E2%80%94or_feeling%E2%80%94of_your_emotions\" >Don\u2019t lose sight\u2014or feeling\u2014of your emotions.&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/why-you-should-stop-practicing-empathy-and-start-feeling-it\/#About_the_Author\" >About the Author<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Patients don\u2019t need someone to appear empathetic; they need someone who is empathetic. You can be that person without burning yourself out! In this article, Osmosis Medical Education Fellow Jon Urquidi Ferreira discusses the prominent role empathy has begun to play in medicine and why he thinks we should commit to it even more.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Modern medical schools have an entirely different perspective on what it takes to be a clinician compared to 20\u201330 years ago (when most of our teachers were being trained). Back then, medicine was paternalistic and authoritarian; there were no waiting time targets, and the public didn&#8217;t have access to (or possibly an interest in) the kind of information about health that we have now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thankfully, person-centered medicine is the new standard and is at the heart of the teaching at my medical school:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/courses\/medicine-mbbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">King\u2019s College London<\/a>. Roleplay with patient actors and patient educators (\u201cprofessional\u201d patients invited to the medical school to educate medical students about their ideas, concerns, and expectations in clinical encounters) is routine and highly helpful. In the NHS (Britain\u2019s national health service), we are increasingly exposed to patient stories to help us appreciate and understand patient experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, there is a grain of sand in the middle of this change, which has equal potential to irritate or to develop into a pearl. Increasingly, I hear experts in clinical communication tell students to \u201cappear more empathetic\u201d in their interactions with patients. Whether these patients are real or simulated, these interactions are opportunities to connect with patients, to feel what they feel, to hold a space with them\u2014now, while we are students, rather than when we are overworked, raw, and stressed foundation year doctors (or interns for our American friends).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/empathy-injured.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/empathy-injured.png 701w, https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/empathy-injured.png?resize=300,200 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_am_I_talking_about\"><\/span>What am I talking about?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just to remind you (sorry): The clich\u00e9 definition of sympathy is an appreciation of another\u2019s feelings, while empathy is where you experience what another person feels\u2014\u201cem-\u201d meaning \u201cin\u201d and \u201c-pathos\u201d meaning \u201cfeeling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">If you continue to dive down an etymologist\u2019s wormhole (more specifically,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetsin.com\/mental-health\/the-etymology-of-sympathy-and-empathy-by-kelly-knox\/#_edn7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Kelly Knox\u2019s<\/a>), you, in fact, find that empathy is a rather new word, and its Latin roots are perhaps not too important.<\/span> The word was likely crafted to express the German concept of\u00a0<em>einfuhlung<\/em>, literally meaning \u201cin-feeling.\u201d\u00a0<em>The New Century Dictionary<\/em>\u00a0gives a much more psychological perspective that defines empathy as \u201c\u2026mental entrance into the feeling or spirit of a person or thing; appreciative perception or understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is much more illuminating\u2014but also much more confusing when you consider someone being asked to \u201cshow more empathy\u201d\u2026. It sounds more and more like an arcane or occult task, inappropriate for a rational and empirical student of modern medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDisplay your mental entrance into the spirit of another\u201d is not exactly the kind of command any of us signed up to receive when we applied to medical school. But arguably, the more and more laughable the idea of working on \u201cdisplaying empathy\u201d becomes, the more crucial the experience of it becomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/empathy-in-feeling.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/empathy-in-feeling.png 701w, https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/empathy-in-feeling.png?resize=300,200 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_should_we_bother\"><\/span>Why should we bother?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The interesting question then becomes: How do we foster this experience? How can an individual cultivate this bizarre, occult phenomenon? But before that is answered, perhaps we should briefly address a powerfully simple question: Should we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historically, it was argued that doctors should experience neutral empathy. One of the most famous and erudite pundits of this viewpoint was Sir William Osler, who argued that \u201cby neutralizing their emotions to the point that they feel nothing in response to suffering, physicians can \u2018see into\u2019 and hence \u2018study\u2019 the patient&#8217;s \u2018inner life.\u2019\u201d While it is unrealistic to carry all of your patient\u2019s burdens, and it\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0important for clinicians to guard against burnout in a world of seemingly endless demands, this perspective cauterizes away the human element of medicine: the therapeutic potential of connection and listening (see Harvard\u2019s Professor Ted Kaptchuk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oshercollaborative.org\/video\/tedmed-kaptchuk-placebo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">work<\/a>\u00a0for a powerful argument for harnessing the power of placebo).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a powerful account of the damage that this neutral empathy and emotional distancing can do\u2014not only to patients but also to clinicians\u2014please read&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/9780399900235\/House-God-Samuel-Shem-0399900233\/plp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The House of God<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(1978) by Samuel Shem. Frequently recommended by clinicians, it is a challenging first-person account of a medical intern\u2019s desensitization and burnout by medical culture until he learns to empathize once again and reconnect with himself and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, if you will please do me the favor of taking that for granted, I will continue and give some examples of ways to cultivate experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/powerful-platform-for-learning.png?w=700\" alt=\"The most powerful platform for learning medicine and the health sciences Try it now button.\" class=\"wp-image-341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/powerful-platform-for-learning.png 700w, https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/powerful-platform-for-learning.png?resize=300,107 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"If_youve_made_it_this_far_keep_your_mind_wide_open\"><\/span>If you\u2019ve made it this far, keep your mind wide open!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The key to experiencing empathy is building a repertoire, library, vocabulary\u2014whichever word you prefer\u2014of experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Novels and films are infinitely better poised to give us an understanding of other people\u2019s lives than walking around in their shoes; all that will really do is give you blisters and bunions. There are tremendous depictions of people\u2019s experiences of psychosis, leprosy, and anything else. For a great starting list, see <a href=\"https:\/\/scopeblog.stanford.edu\/2019\/01\/09\/watch-list-10-recommended-films-about-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this list<\/a>\u00a0compiled by double-threat physician-filmmakers at Stanford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, while it is brilliant to expand and imagine lives that are totally different from your own, it has been argued by philosophers that human experience is surprisingly universal. The emotions we experience and the thoughts we have are uninspiringly commonplace. Which means that the best place to start is inside your own consciousness. Being aware of what you experience is the starting point for recognizing and understanding changes in others\u2014things they could never communicate in a seminar but that are the meat and veg of building an emotional connection with another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Clinician&#039;s Corner: Tips on empathetic listening for clinicians\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VL_J6ZpbjcE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are myriad methods for this, but the one I have personal experience with is meditation. Not so much the 10-minute mindfulness session we might practice together during a wellbeing week (though this is excellent, and I recommend you continue doing it or give it a try if you haven\u2019t yet). There are forms of meditation that focus on cultivating insight into the sensations that we all experience and which underpin consciousness. There are countless exercises on the Internet using body scanning, mainly for self-compassion\u2014this is inseparable from empathy and will help you develop this faculty. For the skeptics out there, here is some\u00a0scientific backing\u00a0for the importance of somatosensory processing in compassion and empathy. For some exercises to start with, you can have a look\u00a0here, and for anyone wanting to dive deep, I recommend looking into any Vipassana retreats near you (the most widespread school calendar can be found<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhamma.org\/en\/courses\/search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/question-thought-bubble.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/question-thought-bubble.png 701w, https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/question-thought-bubble.png?resize=300,200 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dont_lose_sight%E2%80%94or_feeling%E2%80%94of_your_emotions\"><\/span>Don\u2019t lose sight\u2014or feeling\u2014of your emotions.&nbsp;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do not be afraid of difficult emotions, as the resistance to them is worse than they themselves could ever be. Each of us can find a way to process them\u2014whether through art, dance, the written word, or meditation, to name a paltry few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I implore you\u2014yes, you\u2014to stop \u201cdisplaying\u201d and to keep \u201cexperiencing.\u201d Sneak some black magic into your clinical encounters whenever you have the opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"About_the_Author\"><\/span><strong>About the Author<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Jon Urquidi Ferreira is a third-year medical student at King\u2019s College London and is currently participating in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/osmosis.org\/omef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Osmosis Medical Education Fellowship program<\/a>.<\/span> His\u00a0background is in neuroscience, and he has an interest in psychiatry. Jon is also a passionate climber and a deeply addicted rambler. 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