Empathy

In response to the insightful cover story, “‘A potent medicine’: In matters of pain and trust, empathy may make all the difference,” published in the Healio Rheumatology January 2025 issue, I would like to highlight the key data on empathy.

Uncertainty about future care and life impacts were among the top concerns for patients with psoriatic arthritis, but not for physicians, who highly prioritized individual symptoms, according to data published in ACR Open Rheumatology.

Over the past decade, I have been fortunate to have a platform on which to reflect about the varying dimensions of empathy as it applies to medical practice, and in particular its relevancy to the field of rheumatology.

In this video, Jamy D. Ard, MD, FTOS, gives advice to new residents who treat patients with obesity.

With new guidance now available on monitoring people with early-stage type 1 diabetes, it is crucial for providers to encourage people at high risk to get tested, according to a presenter.

NEW ORLEANS —AI can be used not only to improve clinical decision making, but also to free up providers to spend more quality time with patients, according to two keynote speakers at the AACE annual meeting.

Practitioner empathy was associated with greater patient satisfaction, according to results from more than a dozen trials, although the findings were hampered by inadequate reporting and a risk of bias, according to researchers.

Maybe you’ve heard the phrase “culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

VIENNA — Empathy and a caring environment are core in the practice of medicine, and this also applies to the way physicians interact with patients digitally, according to Vance Thompson, MD.

Patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases may be able to harness mindfulness practices to improve their symptoms, but there is still much to be studied about this connection, noted a presenter at the 2023 AWIR annual conference.