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Summer 2015 • Kentucky
are missing something important. Doctors
need to be refueled. You can’t go at a tremendous pace and not get something back.
I am refueled by what patients give back to
me. Compassion is what sustains me.’
by their teachers in medicine. Her ICU
conversations with parents of dying children
always included a resident so they could
learn how to communicate with compassion.
She believes compassion flows in both directions and needs to be cultivated in medical
training to enrich the doctor-pati