How 40 Seconds of Compassion Could Save a Life | Stephen Trzeciak | TEDxPenn

My wife nearly died a month ago. During her nearly a month in the ER, ICU and general care, lack of compassion was a top factor in her suffering.

This! Yes.. it matters

Dr. Trzeciak I think makes a very compelling argument for physicians to be more compassionate. Dr. Trzeciak shows us through data he collected how being more compassionate is an essential aspect in patient care. It may not be compassion itself per se that is treating patients however being compassionate helps build trust between patients and healthcare providers. This trust then leads to patients feeling like their doctor genuinely cares about their health and will be more likely to share more information and follow treatment plans. Doctors take an ethical oath to prioritize the well-being of the patient above all else. By prioritizing compassion healthcare professionals can do just this. I think if physicians focus more on the doctor/patient relationship all aspects of healthcare will improve. Showing compassion can even have a positive impact on healthcare providers as Dr. Trzeciak alludes to.

This video must be part of curriculum for every healthcare worker. Empathy without compassion will lead to burnout... We need to learn how to cultivate compassion in everyone. Thank you for this wonderful work.

Excellent - compassion so important but it needs to authentic and from the heart?

I’ve been told, to stop being so attached to patients, because one day they might be taken from this world, and I’d be heart broken. I can’t, I love my patients, I love taking care of them, learning about them, where they’re from and what they like to do. When something goes wrong I hug them and comfort them, hold their hand. I’ve been told many times, that just the feeling of skin to skin contact of that hand hold, they say it made them felt loved, felt cared for. The bad news they receive, and the hug they desperately needed, to felt heard and loved, someone they can fall on and trust. I love creating bonds with people, and making them feel loved because that’s what they deserve in hard times, and for me, I feel like it all comes naturally.

I own a healthcare advertising agency, and you just summed up what's wrong with the entire system in 15 minutes

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Excellent talk and spot on
Bravo

idk why but this person speaks the problem that I see from western doctors. Many times my father went to the ER, we all felt lack of compassion and understanding, and we felt like ER providers response like robots. They can save people atm but they have no power to help patients recover mentally.

Awesome talk!

Thanks for honesty, being straight, scientific and compassionate. Greetings from German nurse

Tell all the hospital ceo's making millions without a salary cap (while listed as a non-profit) to take a smaller cut -- you'll see more resources and time in hospitals for more time to offer the standard of care alongside compassion. But when you have 12 ceo's making millions without a salary cap (who have no compassion for overnight nurses strung too thin), how can you ever expect any trickle down into the staffing, work flows, and supplies? Ascension (cough cough)
Just sayin...

yes compassion matters, the Buddha taught this 2666 years ago

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Powerful and important message! Thank you for the work you do and this awesome video.

Why, then, does the medical-psychology-pharmaceutical complex ignore compassion (as well as trauma and Trauma-Informed Care)? Hmmm...

Hilarious--40 seconds of compassion? That was 40 seconds of RHETORIC. You have to MEAN it. To mean it, among other things, you have to remember what the patient says to you, respect them, respond to them as an individual. You have to KNOW them, and that takes TIME as well as really caring. Not a "skill." Real humanity. You think patients can't tell the difference?!

Great talk!

Compassion is extremely important in life. Compassion is the light in the darkness, sunshine in the cold. A society without compassion is a society living in the dark age. Many people have no realization of importance of compassion, we need more program like this to educate the society the importance of compassion. This is excellent lecture. Compassion is not only important in the medical field , it is important in every aspect of life.

Thank you for this ! This is amazing. Thank you for your work, time, effort, studies, and research to enlighten our people and future generations!!!! This is so important and inspirational.

no compassion without self-compassion, dude...

Good one

I love the simplicity of breaking it down into a matter of seconds, fantastic message, the book is great too.

Where is the link to his scientific research study or research based evidence that 40 seconds of compassion “could save a life???

Compassionate behavior can be learned but genuine feelings of compassion and empathy, might not be acquired that way.

Fantastic speaker.. fascinating topic.

En plus de documenter "scientifiquement" ce qui est une évidence - l'importance de la compassion dans le soin - ce TED talk souligne le bénéfice de l'attitude emphatique pour les soignants et comment il s'est sorti d'un burn out en introduisant la compassion dans le soin en "soignant plus" plutôt que de suivre la recommandation d'en faire moins ! un changement de paradigme intéressant

what a great video,  I learn something new I always thought that we were born with compassion either you have it or not not but after watching this he said Compassion  Can Be Learn, that is a good news.

THANK YOU! We need a real review if the hirribke system of medical delivery in this country. Doctors killed my father by their arrogance I have a whole write up on the details of the horror. They made my Mom's COPD exascerbate so rapidly through complete inattention to what we were telling them and for the rest of her life she suffered so horribly. I am still feeling OSTD from when I was 17 and watch my grandmother is excruciating oain all day dying from stimavpch cancer when medicine woukdn't give people the drugs for pain they needed because they didn't want them being addicted! A 65 year old dying grandmother and you're worried about addiction. Just one minute of that pain and they would be downing mirohine as fast as they could! Zero compassion BUT anither component is the real true thing no one mentions is that doctors are far more empathetic for the oain if thise they consider their peers. They treat the regular folks the middle class very differently. Arrogance is a big problem but so is ADMINISTRATION. Bad coordination the ER waiting time coukd be cut by 2/3 just by dessecting the inefficuency if the process if the while hospital. I have so many stories from taking care if two elderly dying parents! And btw if medicine is bad try the Hospice experience! Please rent a Hospice bed with the concrete gel pad. My Mom calls it a torture chamber. So you spend your life making sure you buy the most comfortable bed and end up dying in a bed that truly looks like the bought the beds circa 1919 from some closed down Russian hospital! Then please look at nursing homes. The scariest most horrible system rampant with physical and emotional abuse. The poor souls in this system are just victims of the most horrifying abuse and neglect. And the government system of Medicaid which is the only insurance for most Americans at end of life is a nightmare to work through. This whole system from birth through death needs to change!

Great Talk. Compassion, as best we can do it, ought to be applied to all human interactions, not just in the medical setting. It could come from lawyers, teachers, supervisors, and anyone is providing service of any type to another.

None of this information is new to the profession of nursing. We have known this data and the patient response for years. Compassion and care is a basis of nursing care of a whole person. I’m happy that this physician figured this out for himself, but we’ve known this and provided compassion for a hundred years. There are whole nursing theories about this topic. Now let’s all agree to care for the whole patient, wherever they are on their health spectrum.——— RN for 25 years.

Thank you for this wonderful talk! It is badly needed. Most of my own medical care at my HMO has been quite disappointing in that respect. I take refuge in cynical humor as a defense. Doctor appointments are very stressful for me.

Yasssssss!

As always, Steve moved me with an appeal to my head and my heart.  This needs to be required viewing for all healthcare leaders and providers.

Your just working this out now? Ask a nurse how much more compliance she/he gets from their patients. Ask how much more positive outcomes they get. Doctors need to really look at there nurses to practice/learn holistic care

Compassion, empathy, coincidence humility if you aint got it, maybe your a simple shallow husk! One hopes not

Wow! This is a powerful message! Reality check: If you have 60 seconds to criticize someone you have 40 seconds to show some compassion!
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Wow! Thus message should be shared with the World!
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This was such a inspirational video.