Tag: empathy
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The illusion of information adequacy
“The illusion of information adequacy““The science behind why people think they’re right when they’re actually wrong“ You don’t know what you don’t know. –Socrates How individuals navigate perspectives and attitudes that diverge from their own affects an array of interpersonal outcomes from the health of marriages to the unfolding of international conflicts. The finesse with…
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Humanity needs a fundamental shift—“a very different civilisation”
I choose to quote some sentences of the BMJ opinion article Osler’s valediction: how might physicians contribute to the effort to postpone human extinction?This article is written to physicians, but extrapolation to other professions is left to the reader. Historically, physicians have focused on individual patients. The time has come to expand the scope of…
