Truth and Empathy | The Physician as the Caregiver

Peter Bach, physician, epidemiologist, writer, and Director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center sits down with Johns Hopkins’s Elissa Bantug to share his experiences of being a cancer doctor whose wife eventually lost her life to breast cancer.

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Doctor occupation is holy one because they heal, best doctor can heal a patient physically and emotionally. One doesn’t understand until one faces own medical challenges, but kind words of understanding from doctors give much needed assurance confidence to patients in facing whatever the medical hell they are going through or managing… words of kind caring doctor can literally make the pain/ fear disappear from patients. Many doctors don’t seem to believe in those things rather just want to state their facts or simply don’t have the time or don’t care that much because in their mind, their job ends with stating the facts, perhaps associates compassion as weakness/ incompetence even…