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The Spring Of Empathy
It is curious that while the ability of the human being to recognise and understand the experience of another is prehistoric and very likely found in the rest of our primate family, the term “Empathy” is very recent in the English language, having only appeared in English language dictionaries in 1908, modelled on the German…
Caring for our Sick
I wrote an earlier version of this article when I had just come back from spending 2 nights at a hospital in Bangkok. The most interesting thing about my stay there? I was not a patient. My partner was admitted and given a private room in which there was a couch on which I slept…
