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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: The Empathy Exams By Leslie Jamison Read by Leslie Jamison
Description: From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection.
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014
Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another’s pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain―real and im...