“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/