Sandra Dingal

Empathy in Comunication
What is Empathy?
-The English word is derived from the Ancient Greek word
(empatheia), "physical affection, passion, partiality" which comes
from (en), "in, at" and (pathos), "passion" or "suffering".
-Empathy means imagining yourself in the receivers position.
-Empathy has many different definitions that encompass a broad
range of emotional states, including caring for other people and
having a desire to help them; experiencing emotions that match
another person's emotions; discerning what another person is
thinking or feeling and making less distinct the differences between
the self and the other.
It also is the ability to feel and share another persons emotions.
Some believe that empathy involves the ability to match anothers
emotions, while others believe that empathy involves being
tenderhearted toward another person. Compassion and sympathy
are two terms that many associate with empathy, but all three of
these terms are unique. Compassion is an emotion we feel when
others are in need, which motivates us to help them. Sympathy is a
feeling of care and understanding for someone in need.
Patch Adams
-A Hollywood movie was itself based on the life story of Dr. Hunter
Patch Adams and the book Gesundheit: Good Health is a
Laughing Matter by Adams and Maureen Mylander.
-Patch Adams is one of the most remarkable people alive and this
movie was based on his real-life experiences.
-Patch Adams is about a physician who violates the rule against
emotional involvement, an infraction which brings him in conflict
with the administrator of a hospital and dean of is medical school.
-He has a host of memorale lines in the movie, one of them being:

If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, youd say, I

dont cure a huge percentage, I dont have a 50 percent
compassion rate.
-The statement contains two truths.
1. Many occupations do not believe empathyto be important.
2. Empathy can be learned.
-The antidote for hate, neglect, apathy, misery, even sorrow is
love. No prescription pad needed. No risk of overdose. Love is my
preferred potion. You dont need a medical degree to say, I care
for you. Just three simple words can heal more wounds than all the
doctors in the world.
Dr. Pamela Wible, MD
-Patch Adams used a basic human capacity: communication, in
order to express empathy. Not everyone is a gifted comunicator.
-Like every other skill, and for a lot of people, it takes a lot aof
practice in order to develop skills like communication and empathy
into personal lines of expertise.
-In effective communication, we transmit both a message and a
meaning. Making use of empathy when we transmit message and
meaning help us create emotional connections.
-People who interact with others often benefitfrom the use of
empathy in communication. This would include teachers, doctors,
nurses, customer service personnel, interviewers, media
practitioners, actors, and yes, politicians, and leaders.