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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 11/2017

01-11-2017 | From the Inside

“I feel how you feel”: reflections about empathy in the relationship between ICU physicians and relatives

Author: Michael Quintel

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 11/2017

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Do you remember when it happened to you for the first time? You were talking to the family, the spouse, the mother, the father, sister, brother or friend of a patient lying in a life-threatening state in the ICU trying to explain the actual status of the patient and you realized that your counterpart tried to follow your words but remained immersed in a sea of fear, pain, doubt, uncertainty—a world of conflicting emotions. You stopped because all of a sudden you realized that some of these emotions had become your own—at least in part you felt what she, he, they felt. …
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Title
“I feel how you feel”: reflections about empathy in the relationship between ICU physicians and relatives
Author
Michael Quintel
Publication date
01-11-2017
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 11/2017
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-4872-3

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