To err is human, to empathize is to heal
Empathizing with others’ suffering is one of the most human expressions in life. For empathy to nurture, like any other emotion, it needs time and space, and in none other professions, this maxim is codified as profoundly as in medicine. Even in the times of pre-modern medicine, humans had the temptations to heal fellow humans’ suffering from ailments about which they knew little and had no therapeutics to offer. Nevertheless, …