Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Lessons in Compassion: Teaching Bedside Manner

Lessons in Compassion: Teaching Bedside Manner

In a dehumanizing era of managed care and health care delivery systems, the demand for a warm and caring bedside manner has grown sharply. In response, Harvard Medical School developed a course called Living with Life-Threatening Illnesses that is devoted to training future doctors to be more compassionate by pairing each participant with a uniquely qualified teacher: a patient with a potentially fatal condition. This ABC News program focuses on the poignant partnership between a 63-year-old man with lung cancer and a first-year medical student. In coping with the emotional issues surrounding his cancer, they learn volumes about each other—and themselves. (23 minutes)

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Item#: BVL29954
Copyright date: ©2001
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-6427-4


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