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The Science of Empathy - Helen Riess, 2017 Empathy plays a critical interpersonal and societal role, enabling sharing of experiences, needs, and desires between individuals and providing an emotional bri...

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YouTube video by TEDx Talks The power of empathy: Helen Riess at TEDxMiddlebury

"When we accept diminished substitutes, we become diminished substitutes."

#Empathy

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What should you have in your little black bag? A letter to a young doctor Abstract. Rather than looking at which instruments to put in the traditional physician’s black bag, the changing face of medicine suggests that some virtua

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The Hidden Power of Humility: Elevating Patient and Provider Experience Through Clinician Self-Awareness and Patient-Centered Care - Marco Rizzo, Andrea Leep Hunderfund, Ann Pestorious, Thomas J. Welc... Humility is one of the most powerful and sometimes least understood virtues we can possess. It is often misinterpreted as a sign of weakness, especially today, ...

See also: Rizzo, Marco, et al. "The Hidden Power of Humility: Elevating Patient and Provider Experience Through Clinician Self-Awareness and Patient-Centered Care." Journal of Patient Experience 13 (2026): 23743735261415652.

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See also: Matchett, Caroline L., et al. "Physician humility: a review and call to revive virtue in medicine." Annals of internal medicine 177.9 (2024): 1251-1258.

"Osler's call emphasizes that, regardless of the evolving landscape of health care, humility remains indispensable—it guides physicians to prioritize the patient and maintain the highest standards of ethical practice."

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“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — ’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.” - Mark Twain

#Empathy #Compassion #Communication #NurseSky #MedSky

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“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

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"What is emerging looks far less like immigration enforcement and far more like an Americanized GULAG model: a geographically dispersed archipelago of for-profit run concentration camps designed to disappear people into bureaucratic limbo." - Oliver Kornetzke

#ICE

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“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

#ResistTyranny

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

#ResistTyranny

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The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

#ResistTyranny

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

#ResistTyranny

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

#ResistTyranny

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

#ResistTyranny

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

#ResistTyranny

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Major Update: Pam Bondi Demands Voter Rolls in Exchange for Removing ICE as Alex Pretti's Family Blasts Trump Administration We have a major update this evening, and well, surging ICE agents to places like Minnesota may not have been able immigration enforcement after all.

Major Update: Pam Bondi Demands Voter Rolls in Exchange for Removing ICE as Alex Pretti's Family Blasts Trump Administration

#ResistTyranny

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The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

#ResistTyranny

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

#ResistTyranny

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Mechanistic overview of the skin–brain axis in aging. Cutaneous aging, driven by both UV exposure and intrinsic biological decline, activates multiple systemic pathways that negatively affect brain function. UV-induced skin stress triggers the cutaneous HPA axis, elevating systemic cortisol levels and impairing hippocampal neurogenesis. Chronic inflammation, mediated from skin-derived cytokines (e.g., IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α) contributes to neuroinflammation. Elevated dopamine levels, resulting from UV exposure, may further disrupt cognitive function. In addition, aged skin shows reduced synthesis of BDNF, potentially lowering systemic and central BDNF availability. These skin-originating signals converge to impair hippocampal plasticity and accelerate age-related cognitive decline.

Healthy skin, healthy brain

"Recent advances in dermatological neuroscience have revealed a complex and bidirectional relationship between the skin and the brain, a connection now recognized as the skin–brain axis."

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YouTube video by Office of the Governor of Minnesota Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

#ResistTyranny

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YouTube video by YoYoMaVEVO Yo-Yo Ma - Nature at Play: J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 (Live from the Great Smoky Mountains)

It's a perfect day for some Yo-Yo Ma & his cello in nature....

#Music #Nature 🌳 #Calming 🌸 #GoodVibes ☀️

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YouTube video by Jay Shetty Podcast MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY: The BIGGEST Mistake You are Making in LIFE! (I Wish I Knew THIS Sooner!)

"Humility is admitting you have more to learn."

- Matthew McConaughey

#Wisdom

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Sunday 11 January dawning, from St. Kilda Beach, Ōtepoti, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

YouTube video by Greg McKeown The Dangerous Cost of Not Understanding Each Other - William J. Doherty

"There's a dynamic equilibrium to be aimed at in healthy relationships." - Greg McKeown

#RadicalEmpathy

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