TY - BOOK AU - Spiro, Howard, M. TI - Empathy and the practice of medicine: beyond pills and the scalpel.: edited by Howard M. Spiro et al SN - 0300059183 AV - R727.3.R48 PY - 1993/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press, KW - Physician and patient KW - Medical personnel and patient N1 - Includes index N2 - Seeking to restore empathy to medical practice, this book aims to demonstrate how important it is for doctors to listen to their patients, to experience and to understand what their patients are feeling. The book is a collection of essays by physicians, philosophers and a nurse ER -