Compassionomics | Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference

Does compassion really matter?

In Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference, physician scientists Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli uncover the eye-opening data that compassion could be a wonder drug for the 21st century. Now, for the first time ever, a rigorous review of the science — coupled with captivating stories from the front lines of medicine—demonstrates that human connection in health care matters in astonishing ways. Never before has all the evidence been synthesized together in one place. You will see compelling evidence that:

Compassion has vast benefits for patients across a wide variety of conditions.

Missed opportunities for compassion can have devastating health effects.

Compassion can help reverse the cost crisis in health care.

Compassion can be an antidote for burnout among health care providers.

Forty seconds of compassion can save a life.

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#COMPASSIONOMICS Daily: A Harvard meta-analysis of RCTs found that interventions to improve the patient-clinician relationship were associated with improved patient outcomes. Effect size was greater than effect of aspirin/statins on 5-year heart attack risk. @theIHI #medtwitter

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14 Oct

⁦@StephenTrzeciak⁩ & Dr Mazzarelli wrote #compassionomics to share all of the studies that show the power of compassion. When doctors are compassionate, patients get better & doctors are less likely to burn out.#compassion #health #healthcare https://t.co/NrYL6BPd4s

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Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH @StephenTrzeciak·

11 Oct

#COMPASSIONOMICS Daily: A randomized trial in people undergoing experimentally-induced pain found that #compassion from a #physician just before painful stimuli reduced activation of pain centers in the brain on functional MRI. #CompassionMatters #medtwitter @theSCCH @GoldFdtn

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Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH @StephenTrzeciak·

9 Oct

#COMPASSIONOMICS DAILY: What's the key difference between these depictions of the doctor-patient relationship? Left: drawing by pediatric patient recently published in JAMA. Right: Luke Fildes "The Doctor" (1891). @TheIHI @RanaAwdish @TheCharter @medtwitter @meded #compassion

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7 Oct

#COMPASSIONOMICS DAILY: A @NIH-funded @UWMadison study found primary care doctor compassion (rated by patients) was associated with better immune response, and shorter duration / lower severity of symptoms in patients with the common #cold. #CompassionMatters #MedTwitter @TheIHI

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But the pivotal question is this:

Does compassion really matter?

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