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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Expanding our #mind about who’s in our in-group, not only raises #empathy and #compassion for others, but also raises #altruism, other-focus, and #prosocial behavior, i.e. serving others

Even among rival #football (#soccer) fans! @ManUtd #PsychTwitter https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15743980/

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Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH @StephenTrzeciak·

24 Jan

#Science shows that to get the #health and #wellbeing benefits of serving others, there’s a threshold effect at 100 hours/year

But we don’t prescribe therapies once a year, we prescribe them daily. So that’s (on average) 16 minutes/day of serving others

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Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH @StephenTrzeciak·

22 Jan

Researchers studied hierarchies of #values across 6 continents and 60 nations and found that #giving to others was #1, “a universal,” more precious than power, achievement, or pleasure.

Agree? Disagree?

#AcademicTwitter #PsychTwitter #Compassion #Empathy https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022022101032003002

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Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH @StephenTrzeciak·

19 Jan

Research in >100 nations (200,000 people) found that those who give to #charity are (on average) #happier than those who don’t, regardless of #income. Giving to charity made about the same difference for #happiness as having *twice* as much income.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23421360/

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Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH @StephenTrzeciak·

18 Jan

A UCLA/Yale study found that kindness to others buffers stress about one’s own worries and mitigates the negative effects of stress in daily life. Other-focus doesn’t change your circumstances, but can help you forget your own worries, at least temporarily https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27500075/

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Does compassion really matter?

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