One is too invested into the patient supplying extraneous details in a situation where that is harmful and the other is emotionally distant in a situation where the patient needs someone to be there for them. Not once does Jamison detail an experience where a doctor in training handled the pseudo case with the appropriate amount of empathy, which leads one to believe that there may not be one. There is no way for someone to accurately and truly be able to empathize with another, so the doctors are always lacking in this area. This foreshadows Jamison’s own experiences late on in the story and the lack of empathy she felt from her own doctors both for her abortion and unrelated heart surgery; what she did feel from her doctors lacked compassion and was never enough to make her feel empathized
One is too invested into the patient supplying extraneous details in a situation where that is harmful and the other is emotionally distant in a situation where the patient needs someone to be there for them. Not once does Jamison detail an experience where a doctor in training handled the pseudo case with the appropriate amount of empathy, which leads one to believe that there may not be one. There is no way for someone to accurately and truly be able to empathize with another, so the doctors are always lacking in this area. This foreshadows Jamison’s own experiences late on in the story and the lack of empathy she felt from her own doctors both for her abortion and unrelated heart surgery; what she did feel from her doctors lacked compassion and was never enough to make her feel empathized