What is more important, scientific knowledge or compassionate care?
This is like asking, what is more important, food or water? They are each very importantessential to quality healthcare. Healthcare providers go through years of training because our actions, our decisions, directly affect the lives and health of so many people in our careers. Knowledge, experience and life-long education are indispensable for the modern provider. Yet, at the same time, the purpose of all that training and education is to help make people better, to help people make medical decisions that will yield happy, healthy lives. Our healthcare is provided to patients and families, not diseases. Often these patients and families are worried, anxious or confused. All our knowledge, all our experience can only be useful if our patients trust us and are willing to listen to our advice. That trust comes when we are compassionate, interested, humble teachers, who share what we believe to be important in a respectful and loving manner, with the sincere goal of helping our patient. Is
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