When health care providers take the time to make human connections that help end suffering, patient outcomes improve and medical costs decrease. Every two weeks, we drop new episodes and publish a newsletter with helpful stories like this one.Īfter considering more than 1,000 scientific abstracts and 250 research papers, Trzeciak and Mazzarelli were surprised to find that the answer was, resoundingly, yes. Life Kit is NPR's family of podcasts for helping you get your life together.
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To find more stories about how to live well, sign up for the Life Kit newsletter. But Mazzarelli was his colleague and chief, so he dove in. Sure, compassion is good, Trzeciak thought, but he expected to review the existing science and report back the bad news that caring has no quantitative rationale. He had a mission for Trzeciak - he wanted him to find answers to this question: Can treating patients with medicine and compassion make a measurable difference on the wellbeing of both patients and doctors? As co-president of Cooper, Mazzarelli was in charge of a major medical system and needed to find ways to improve patient care. Anthony Mazzarelli, came to him with a problem: Recent studies had shown an epidemic of burnout among health care providers.
As a specialist in intensive care and chief of medicine at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, N.J., Trzeciak felt most at home in the hard sciences. Stephen Trzeciak was not a big believer in the "touchy-feely" side of medicine. Studies show that when doctors practice compassion, patients fare better, and doctors experience less burnout.Ĭavan Images/Getty Images/Cavan Images RFįor most of his career, Dr.