About the Book
As a veteran emergency room physician, Dr. Brian Goldman has a successful career setting broken bones, curing pneumonia, and otherwise pulling people back from the brink of medical emergency. He always believed that caring came naturally to physicians. But time, stress, errors, and heavy expectations left him wondering if he might not be the same caring doctor he thought he was at the beginning of his career. He wondered what kindness truly looks like—in himself and in others.

Contents

1. A Questions of Kindness

2. Hard-Wired

3. Psychopaths, Narcissists, and Machiavellians - The Dark Triad

4. The Donut Shop

5. The Bar at Ground Zero

6. Games of Empathy

7. Homeless in Brazil

8. The Kindest Robots

9. Teach Me

10. Soul Whisperers

11.  Epiphany

"How can empathy transform health care?

Empathy is the way that we establish human connections. Without it, relationships between people are just transactions and devoid of the emotional warmth and meaning that I think is inherent in the human condition. If we could put more empathy into health care, it would mean that patients are more likely to follow the instructions of physicians and to feel assured that the best is being done for them. Family members would feel included in the plans, which means they would be more energized to help out and pitch in and take the instructions from the health-care team and use them to take care of their loved one when they take that person home. Health professionals themselves would feel better about the work that they do, more satisfied and less likely to be burned out."

• The Dark Triad

  • Psychopaths -  

  • Narcissists -

  • Machiavellians -

• Derek Mitchell  - Neuroscientist -

  • Psychopathic Personality Inventory

  • Autism Spectrum Quotient by Simon Baron-Cohen

• Joana Barbaosa Vieira - psychologist

• Scott Lilenfeild - study Psychopaths

• Stories: Looking for Caring People