Open Access Review Article

Loss of Empathy in Medical Training: A Sad Behavioral Learning

Juan Antonio Lugo Machado1* and Dalia Yocupicio Hernández2

1Department of Otolaryngolgoy, Centro Médico Nacional del Noroeste, México

2University of Sonora, Campus Cajeme, Cd Obregón, Sonora

Corresponding Author

Received Date: December 17, 2018;  Published Date: January 03, 2019

Abstract

Empathy is a very important competence in health professionals, when working with human beings who are in a situation of vulnerability. Technological advances have caused a depersonalization of human relationships and with it a significant erosion of empathy [1,2]. We cannot deny the importance of technological progress, but it has also brought a loss and loss of empathy between health professionals and patients [3,4]. It is necessary to understand this phenomenon and work on it to maintain it, promote it and learn.

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