Lecture 28 - Enhancing compassion

Question 1

Why is compassion good?

Answer 1

• is empathy and wanting to alleviate suffering (motivation, wisdom)
• happiness
• feel connected
• satisfaction from helping others
• Patients also benefit
• better outcomes for patients

Question 2

risk factors for early mortality

Answer 2

• smoking
• sedentary lifestyle
• air pollution
• social isolation, loneliness, living alone

Question 3

Barriers to compassion in medicine

Answer 3

• burnout/fatigue
• diffiult paitent/famil
• external distraction
• clinical complexity

Question 4

There are doctor factors, pateitn factors nad clinical factors all preventing this

Answer 4

Docotr - burnout and fatigue, motivaiton, perpective, act of kidness

Patient - difficult patient, try and se aspects of them in oursleves

CLinical factors - challenging clinical senarios, complicaitons, patietns who do not improve, be aware, discuss with colleag s m, do not blame patiens