“…More recently, this condemnation reached a climax when objective studies confirmed that empathy amongst medical students and residents declines as they progress throughout their training (Newton et al, 2000;Spencer, 2004;Hojat et al, 2004). By consequence, an extensive literature has emerged on the questions of how physicians should be empathic (Halpern, 2003;Benbassat & Baumal, 2004;Larson & Yao, 2007), how it should be measured (Hojat et al, 2004;Stepien & Baernstein, 2006), and how best to "educate" empathic physicians (Shapiro et al, 2004;Platt & Keller, 1994;Burack et al, 1999;Winefield & Chur-Hansen, 2000). Evidently, empathy in medicine is very much on the radar today.…”