THE EMPATHY EXAMS

From personal loss to phantom diseases, a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers W eekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for m edical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamisons visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel anothers pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or per formed? Is...[Leer más]