Jamison doubts empathy can alleviate the pain instead of strength it. She doubts that let people talk about their disease in a specific place, where they can only focus on the disease, can help them cure the disease. This communication merely strengthens their belief of suffering, and it cannot provide the comfort it is supposed to provide. As a result, the pain becomes worse and needs even more comforts. What make things worse is that this communication makes people believe that they can only be understand here. Therefore their isolation from the outside world is reinforced. Jamison thinks that the patients should consider themselves not only as ‘patients’ but also as ‘citizens’ who are able to live in the outside world. However, go to the