Our very own Dr. Dominic Vachon, the John G. Sheedy, M.D., Director of the Ruth M. Hillebrand Center for Compassionate Care in Medicine, was featured in a recent article in Notre Dame Magazine. Check out the article here, featuring interviews with our Co-President Leah Bode '21 and one of Dr. Vachon's research assistants, Quinn Retzloff '22.
“Patients who feel cared for will provide better data to their physicians and receive better treatment,” Vachon says. For providers, compassion is “a buffer against burnout as well as a means for recovering from burnout.” Fortunately, he emphasizes, humans are hardwired to be compassionate, so “we can teach compassion.”
“Dr. Vachon’s contagious enthusiasm for this cutting-edge shift from medicine’s paternalistic ‘biomedical’ model to a new ‘biopsychosociospiritual’ model of caring that could transform the patient as well as the physician [is] absolutely fascinating,” shared Quinn Retzloff ’22, a preprofessional studies major from Ohio who plans to attend medical school.
https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/he-cant-stress-compassion-enough/
“Patients who feel cared for will provide better data to their physicians and receive better treatment,” Vachon says. For providers, compassion is “a buffer against burnout as well as a means for recovering from burnout.” Fortunately, he emphasizes, humans are hardwired to be compassionate, so “we can teach compassion.”
“Dr. Vachon’s contagious enthusiasm for this cutting-edge shift from medicine’s paternalistic ‘biomedical’ model to a new ‘biopsychosociospiritual’ model of caring that could transform the patient as well as the physician [is] absolutely fascinating,” shared Quinn Retzloff ’22, a preprofessional studies major from Ohio who plans to attend medical school.
https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/he-cant-stress-compassion-enough/