Is Empathy Cost Efficient?
Abstract
Psychiatrists and other physicians are currently considering alternate health-care-delivery systems to curtail the escalating costs ofthe existing health-care-delivery organization. This paper addresses the impact of this cost-efficiency focus on our capacity to be empathic by outlining how an emphasis on monetary factors may encourage self-serving financial attitudes within psychiatrists. These concerns over our economic well-being may inhibit an empathic approach to patients. Ultimately, this scenario can result in a view of “unprofitable” patients as bad objects that deprive financially and require countertransference control or abandonment.
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