How do you describe compassion in Health care and is it important to you?

Kim Bolen RN CCM ACM Compassion is important not only in healthcare but also in life. In healthcare it's about the attitude of the individual. Most people in healthcare are the most compassionate that can be found.

As difficult as it may seem - compassion in health care also means knowing when you are prolonging life and when you are prolonging death - so not blinding pursuing every possible medical intervention when we cannot maintain and/or improve the patient's quality of life - particularly when against the patient's and the family's informed consent and appropriately documented wishes. Warmest Regards, Sandy

Honestly, I don't care about compassion. What I need is a treatment or an answer to questions. Your brain will make up horrible what if scenarios by itself. I don't need the doctors help with that. There's nothing worse than a doctor coming in saying "I'm not sure how to tell you this", because you've already made up 50+ worse scenarios in your head.

Compassion is great when you're working with children. But as an adult, we need answers. We need solutions. Good news or bad news, we need it so we can move past it.