Tag / Empathy
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Bioethics Case Study – Empathy in Ethics Consultation Supports Family
Using empathy in healthcare ethics consultations is the topic of this Bioethics case study in VIDEO and PRINT. This case illustrates how the ethics consultant discovered the underlying reason for the family’s reluctance to let go and find a way to meet their need with empathy. Published by the Center for Practical Bioethics.
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When Empathy Is Turned into Fear
Empathy is redirected into self-protection. When immigration enforcement is highly visible, inconsistently applied, and no longer constrained by once-respected boundaries, people begin to ask not only what is happening to them? but could this happen to us? Distance begins to feel safer than beneficence. All this while the steps needed to protect immigrant patients are well known, ethically justified and within bounds of the law. The Center for Practical Bioethics.
