The Importance of EmpathyâAs I Have Studied and Experienced It. Empathy is a crucial component of the patient-physician relationship and has been associated with improved patient outcomes in multiple studies. The importance of empathy has been of major interest to me as a student of the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). At the medical school I have learned that Kim, et al, 1 for example, analyzed the role of patient-perceived empathy and demonstrated that affective empathy led to a greater exchange of information, increased partnership, and interpersonal trust.
Larry Nassar, the former acclaimed USA Gymnastics team doctor, pleaded guilty Wednesday to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and admitted in a Michigan court to using his position to sexually abuse underage girls.
AFTER hearing from an astonishing 156 accusers, former US Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been sentenced to between 40 and 175 years in prison for molesting girls and women who went to him for treatment. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina sentenced Nassar this morning.