RT Book, Section A1 Roberts Jr., Reverend Asa W. A1 Epner, Daniel E. A2 Epner, Daniel E. SR Print(0) ID 1190085972 T1 Just Do What You Do T2 Empathy: Real Stories to Inspire and Enlighten Busy Clinicians YR 2022 FD 2022 PB McGraw Hill LLC PP New York, NY SN 9781260473414 LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190085972 RD 2024/03/28 AB As a chaplain in the Palliative Care Department at MD Anderson Cancer Center, I work closely with doctors, nurses, and other clinicians every day. As a result, I constantly witness the many ways in which clinicians forge strong, healing relationships with vulnerable patients, and I see many parallels between the work that they do and my work as a spiritual adviser. Seriously ill patients see clinicians as much more than technical experts who diagnose and treat disease. They also expect their doctors and other clinicians to transcend traditional clinical roles and practice with great humanism. My role as a chaplain is well defined: I work purely in the spiritual domain. However, the lines blur for clinicians, who straddle the biomedical, psychosocial, and spiritual domains. I therefore believe that my work as a chaplain is highly relevant to the everyday practice of empathic clinicians.