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Sympathy, empathy and compassion: Patients can tell the difference – Can you?

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Sympathy, empathy and compassion: Patients can tell the difference – Can you?

While an individual’s capacity for compassion is as unique as the experiences of patients receiving it, the call to compassion, while being a high bar, is not an endpoint. Rather, compassion is a dynamic care construct that can be cultivated through practice and when it is expressed, according to patients, is the most potent form of care that healthcare providers can express.

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Looking good in a compression sock? Yes it can happen!

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Looking good in a compression sock? Yes it can happen!

When most people think of a compression sock, a thick, dowdy, difficult to wear garment often comes to mind. Encouraging patients to wear compression can at times be one of the more difficult tasks of the practitioner’s day. Often I have patients say to me “Compression socks, I think my Grandma wears those. 

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