0 a strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for the suffering or bad luck of others and a wish to help them:
I was hoping she might show a little compassion.
1 a strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for other people’s suffering or bad luck and a desire to help
In fact there is some evidence to suggest that they were able to exhibit a degree of compassion, especially if the victim requested mercy.
How can you interview the patient in teaching rounds with compassion and so as to avoid disrespect?
Indeed, in our shared vision we both wanted to address what we perceived to be a lack of compassion in teaching and conducting.
The carer can now serve the dying with compassion, deep caring, professional knowledge, and comfort in the presence of the patient.
Applied to the facial expression of pain, these issues point to the evolutionary origin of compassion.
He did this out of compassion for the suffering of all other creatures.
If we want to reactivate medical virtue, according to this argument, we should focus on less controversial characteristics, like compassion, fidelity, and courage.
This kind of self-knowledge confers practical wisdom, tolerance, and compassion and thus influences how the individual so enriched judges other people and other situations.