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Dr. Zubin Damania
@ZDoggMD
Hospitalist and Host of The ZDoggMD Show. Follow for new video releases 👍 DM me here: https://t.co/sn2oseMNyB
Jul 10, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Empathy (narrowly FEELING another's pain) prompts us to care deeply about a dozen Thai kids trapped in a cave...#good. Compassion (love, understanding, & concern in the face of suffering) causes us to care about them AND the tragic flooding of 1000's in Japan...#better (cont.) Empathy shines a narrow spotlight on the few, and can cause us to overreact and act short-term to relieve pain. You can't empathize with 100's or with a statistical abstraction like massive flooding. You empathize with one story at a time, and you FEEL it personally. (cont.)