Care, compassion, empathy: Euthanasia: Controlling our own emotions in the face of patient need

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Care, compassion, empathy: Euthanasia: Controlling our own emotions in the face of patient need

Jim Vause 2015

Jim Vause

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Doctors are to take care the patient dies with dignity, in comfort and with as little suffering as possible, says the Medical Council [Image: Alexander Grey on Unsplash]

Jim Vause, who gets upset thinking about assisting a patient to die, decides the best approach is to consider the suffering patient’s emotions and not your own

What drives you as a clinician? Is it the emotional side of patient care or is it the logic, the higher-level stuff? When it comes to that vexed topic