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It only takes a year to start draining empathy from future physicians, according to a study of medical students in the March issue of Academic Medicine. But empathy is a key quality medical schools should promote, experts said, because it makes for better physicians.

“We know as a medical community that really good communication skills with patients help the patients to comply with the instructions of the physician,” said lead study author Bruce W. Newton, PhD. “It puts them more at ease with the physician, a bond of trust is established, and if something unfortunately goes wrong, if you have this bond and communications skills, you are much less likely to be sued.”

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In the early days of his career, Gil Yosipovitch, MD, was an internist on call for hemodialysis patients. He discovered that, although they had obvious life-threatening medical needs associated with their kidney disease, they also commonly experienced a symptom that destroyed their quality of the life. They itched — and it made them miserable.

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