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Patient Empathy Examples

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1. What is meant by preparatory empathy? Give an example of preparatory empathy from the text or from your own practice.

The topic for this week’s discussion is something that I do many times throughout the day. I’m a case worker and I interview clients for eligibility for a variety of welfare programs. There is a certain amount of prep work I do beforehand. One thing I look at is the history of the client, their domestic situation and financial situation. You get an overview of the difficulties that they face just by reading their application.
A part of understanding their situation is realizing that they may have faced some pretty big barriers. Preparatory empathy is when “you put yourself in the place of your client and realize how
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