Giving Language to Empathy: Lessons from Palliative Care

A doctor writes about the lessons learned from her palliative care colleagues about empathetic communication.

In a KevinMD post, Varsha Venkatakrishna, a DO candidate, writes about the value of empathy in medicine. After wanting to understand more about the patient's perspective, she rotated with palliative care colleagues and observed how words matter when talking to patients, and their families.

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