In this challenging time, compassion is more important than ever in the healthcare field. Check out this interview with our very own Dr. Dominic Vachon, the John G. Sheedy, M.D., Director of the Ruth M. Hillebrand Center for Compassionate Care in Medicine and an expert in compassion science. Dr. Vachon speaks to the compassion mindset and its significance during a pandemic crisis, which couples nicely with our club's "Compassion and Corona" series of physician Zoom discussions this month.
"We have tended to devalue the truly caring motivation in our helping professionals because we think it’s not worth very much. And yet the preciousness of compassion fuels these medical professionals to keep going. While there is a deep sadness with the suffering of so many people, people who are rooted in a compassion mindset are intensely responding to that sadness by asking themselves what can they do to try to alleviate that suffering. This is what’s worth fighting for. It’s worth fighting to make the world a better place."
https://news.nd.edu/news/on-the-front-lines-of-the-coronavirus-fight-health-professionals-show-compassion-to-its-fullest/
"We have tended to devalue the truly caring motivation in our helping professionals because we think it’s not worth very much. And yet the preciousness of compassion fuels these medical professionals to keep going. While there is a deep sadness with the suffering of so many people, people who are rooted in a compassion mindset are intensely responding to that sadness by asking themselves what can they do to try to alleviate that suffering. This is what’s worth fighting for. It’s worth fighting to make the world a better place."
https://news.nd.edu/news/on-the-front-lines-of-the-coronavirus-fight-health-professionals-show-compassion-to-its-fullest/