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Doctors can feel their patients’ pain

By Bonnie Prescott, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Communications / January 29, 2013

A novel experiment illuminates the importance of the doctor-patient relationship, providing the first data into the underlying neurobiology of the caregiver.

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