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“Detachment,” opines Halpern, “does not make medicine more rational; rather, it forces irrationality underground, where it poses as certainty about the future and irrational assumptions. Detachment is a poor strategy,” she maintains, “either to help patients overcome emotional irrationality or to help physicians detect both their own and their patients’ emotional irrationality”. She contends that empathy is the cure for these errors of emotional irrationality occasioned or fostered by detachment.
— James Marcum, An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine Humanizing Modern Medicine (Philosophy and Medicine) (Philosophy and Medicine), 2008-
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