At the Jaipur Literature Festival, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi made a bold claim: the most important human metric of the future will not be intelligence or emotional skill, but ...

In this grounded theory study, palliative cancer patients' understanding and experiences of compassion were explored through semistructured interviews to provide a critical perspective on the nature ...

Compassion has not always been a word in my vocabulary. And, truth be told, I’ve been accused – accurately so – of lacking compassion. At a certain time and moment, any of us can. I can, anyway. Maybe ...

A cancer nurse focuses on alleviating or reducing the anxiety patients often feel when undergoing cancer treatment. The work performed by Jeannette Mazzola, M.S.N., APRN-CNP, AOCNP, AGPCNP-BC, ...

Compassion is an important concept in medicine. This is why it is frequently discussed in medical school applications. However, compassion often is used as a buzzword without sufficient attention to ...

Have you ever tried to help someone only to see things get worse? Has your compassion for a self-destructive person ever led to more self-destruction? The problem is that the brain learns from rewards ...

Life can get pretty overwhelming. Especially after this past year in COVID-19, with constantly changing schedules, having to be "on" and ready at any moment, as well as the increase in ...