Doctors are as compassionate as nurses – we just need to start owning it

Dr Edwin Leap
Compassion

There is a popular trope going around suggesting that somehow doctors lack the compassion of our nursing colleagues. We see it in the PR materials for nurse practitioners that say, ‘Head of a doctor, heart of a nurse’.

Even hospital CEOs seem to love images of nurses plying their trade, leaning over patients with furrowed brows, loving hands reaching out to comfort the sick.